Trump’s Bobbing and Dancing Disaster
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Chris Lehmann on the elites’ denial of the presidential candidate’s mental decline.
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Trump’s Bobbing and Dancing Disaster | The Time of Monsters
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Jeet Heer is joined by Chris Lehmann to discuss the elite denial of presidential candidate’s mental decline.
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U.S. Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump dances during a campaign rally.
(Rebecca Noble / Getty Images)As the presidential election comes down to the wire, it’s hard to ignore the evidence of Donald Trump’s increasingly erratic behavior: his slurring of words, his freezing up during questions, his repeated cancellations of interviews, and the bizarre incident at a town hall in Pennsylvania, where Trump unexpectedly spent more than half an hour bobbing and tottering on stage to a selection of his favorite tunes. My Nation colleague Chris Lehmann wrote about this event. He joins me to talk about Trump’s cognitive slide and also the failure of elite institutions that are still enabling Trump, including the mainstream media and the Republican Party. We also take up the state of the race in general.
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Noam Chomsky and the Fight Against Empire | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Daniel Bessner on a radical critic’s achievements and the limits of protest.
For nearly seven decades, Noam Chomsky has been the most important critic of American foreign policy. Daniel Besser, co-host of the Nation podcast American Prestige, recently reviewed for the magazine a new book authored by Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism. In his review, Daniel both extolled Chomsky’s monumental achievement and raised questions about the weakness of antiwar movements in challenging the terrible policies that Chomsky has so diligently analyzed.
Daniel and I talked about Chomsky’s legacy as well as the way the establishment has been able to success thwart popular resistance.
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