> all right, i start this hour by taking you back to the quaint time that was 2015. back when we were still figuring out what the dating term ghosting actually meant. and what a lot of us didn t know how much about that fringe movement that was the alt right. of course, that all changed with donald trump s golden escalator ride at trump tower when he announced his long shot presidential campaign. trump of course started by courting the fringe alt right movement, retweeting their memes, enlisting the help of steve bannon then executive chairman of the far right site britebart to run his campaign. this was concerning for conservative commentator david french. he wrote an op ed in 2015 calling out the movement saying quote, many of them are white nationalists, hate interracial adoption, and other race mixing practices. french and his wife and ghost writer nancy were quickly bombarded with threats from the alt right troll. as french writes in her new book ghosted, an american sto
on this new hour of ayman, what in the world happened to reagan s republican party? our first guest wrote the book on how the alternative right took center stage. also, the clock is ticking for trump to pick a running mate. who he chooses could boil down to one thing, loyalty, and believing the big lie. and, the mindnumbing conversation between ann coulter and vivek ramaswamy that earned them the title of worst of the week. i am ayman mohyeldin. let s do it. i start this hour by taking you back to the quaint time that was 2015, back when we were still figuring out what the dating term, ghosting, actually, meant, and what a lot of us did not know about that fringe movement that was the alternative right. that all changed with donald trump s golden escalator ride at trump tower, when he announced his longshot presidential campaign. trump, of course, started by courting the fringe alt rights movement, enlisting the help of steve bannon, and then executive chairman of breitba
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The conservative columnist cited chapter and verse for the ways he, his wife and their adopted daughter from Ethiopia became flashpoints for critique from fellow members of their Presbyterian Church in America congregation in Nashville.
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