About this episode

The episode explores the historical context of extremism in relation to the MAGA movement and its implications.

We continue the journey of historical extremism towards today's MAGA movement, but we will not make this an Agatha Christie moment where we reveal the conclusion in a dramatic twist at the end: The MAGA movement is politically exteme from a historical point of view. And unless you do see yourself as such, you probably should stay away from it or vote for it. We will explore how extremism has happened in the US before, why extremist leaders are often targeted by assassins, why lying is ...

People in this episode

Host: Francis Lundh

Topics covered

• historical extremism
• MAGA movement
• political extremism
• US history
• assassination of leaders

Keywords

• historical extremism
• MAGA
• political extremism
• US history
• assassination
• extremist leaders

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Organizations: MAGA

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