Carried it alive and we are pleased to be joined by former radio host and msnbc contributor Charles Sykes whose new book is called how the rights lost its mind is this a book about donald trump . Guest now, obviously he plays a major role but its really about the conservative movement, what happened to the conservative movement and how it enabled him, capitulated to him and how where did you go wrong . How do they conservative movement go from being run by William F Buckley to sean hannity . digital from Ronald Reagan to donald trump . How do we go from edmund burke to and culture . What happened to us that led up to that and this is the big question i had after the election. What just happened . What did we miss . The things going on that i thought i understood that maybe i didnt. Host was there a seminal moment . Was it years in the making . With the 2016 . Guest i started off with a thesis that donald trump was a black swan. He came in and took over sort of as a fluke, took over thi
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As we continue from miami i a am joined by journalist and author Sheryl Attkisson his most recent book the smear i thank you had a chance to listen to those final l few calls and the last caller thinks people were duped voting for donald trump. There are a few out there that i talk about in the smear if you watch the rallies of Hillary Clinton and donald trump and talk to people outside the big cities, that is what led me to think he would be president you get a different picture to stereotype. Host tie in the smear to the election 2016 were there campaigns . I think it was the academy of factors whether social media, smear groups all the tactics that they used everything came to play in 2016 and more money was spent by Hillary Clinton and her supporters than donald trump. Far more but the lesson is even though the liberal side and Hillary Clinton side tended to permeate the press and the narrative was ubiquitous but he wanted so the commentary is many republicans and democrats hee def
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