On this episode of Start Making Sense, Steve Phillips challeges the conventional wisdom about the election, and Amy Wilentz reviews the latest on the Trump kids and their in-laws.
Donald Trump is greeted by his family after the third presidential debate on October 19, 2016. (Joe Raedle / Reuters)
Kamala Harris lost not because Democratic voters switched to Trump, Steve Phillips shows, but because of a massive failure of the Democrats to turn out their base.
Also: In a new episode of “The Children’s Hour,” Amy Wilentz reports on “the Rise of the In-Laws”—Ivanka’s and Tiffany’s fathers-in-law—and comments also on the rise of Eric’s wife Lara, and on the latest schemes of Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner.
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The first big election of 2025 will be in Wisconsin, which elects a new Supreme Court Justice on April 1. Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions in that race. That’s both a threat, and an opportunity for Democrats. On this episode of Start Making Sense, John Nichols will comment.
Also: How did we end up with Trump back in the White House? We got here in part because Republicans built a movement over several decades centered on what are called “the culture wars.” But there’s a long history behind the culture wars, going back at least a century to the Scopes Trial, in 1925, about teaching evolution. It’s still an issue today. Adam Hochschild is on the show to explain.
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