Democracy Spawns A Tyrant

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Democracy Spawns A Tyrant

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May 18, 2016

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Jacob Weisberg talks to Andrew Sullivan about his New York Magazine cover story “America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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May 18, 2016

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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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Democracy Spawns A Tyrant: Jacob Weisberg talks to Andrew Sullivan about his New York Magazine cover story “America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny” by Slate News
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