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
California, thinks that people were duped often into voting for donald trump. Guest there is that view out there but as i talk about in the smear if you actually watched the rallies of Hillary Clinton and donald trump issue tried to watch almost every one. You talk to people outside the big cities, which i did a lot of, thats what led me to predict in advance that donald trump would be president when so many others cooperate see that. Think you get a different picture than the stereotype that it bandied about. Host tie the spear into into election 2016. Were there campaigns going on sub rosa . Guest totally. 2016 was the emit my of all the factors, whether its emotional media, smear industry in washington, dc, thats grown to this huge level, all the tack tactics. Everything claim into play in 2016. More money was spent gazillions more by Hillary Clinton and her supporters than on donald trump, far more, and i guess the lesson is even though, as i say in the book, the liberal side and t
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