About this episode

The episode discusses the parallels between the Fauci witch hunt and the White House Correspondents' Dinner as a form of political theater.

Episode 1011 argues that the Fauci witch hunt and the White House Correspondents' Dinner were the same show: theater staged to give a cult desperate for a villain someone new to hate. Driftglass and Blue Gal use Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" to describe legacy media pundits partying safely behind castle walls while the plague of modern Republican fascism finally breaks through the door. The episode names the psychological trap keeping disengaged voters stuck in "Yeah, but Democrats..." ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• Fauci witch hunt
• White House Correspondents' Dinner
• media criticism
• Republican fascism
• voter disengagement
• political theater

Keywords

• Fauci
• White House Correspondents' Dinner
• media pundits
• Republican fascism
• voter engagement
• political commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Masque of the Red Death

Places: White House, Republican

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