About this episode

The episode examines the ongoing effort to distort historical truths and the implications for political discourse.

Episode 994 of The Professional Left takes a hard look at the war on memory — the long, grinding campaign to erase what actually happened to this country and replace it with a comfortable myth that lets the people who caused the damage off the hook. A fascinating breakfast conversation between a writer and ten of his late father's Trump-voting friends provides the jumping-off point, raising a question that cuts right to the heart of everything: where exactly are these voters getting their opi...

People in this episode

Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• war on memory
• political myths
• Trump voters
• historical revisionism
• media influence

Keywords

• recycled lies
• memory
• politics
• Trump
• voters
• myth-making
• historical accuracy

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