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How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, And Superheroes Made America Great For Extremism

Connecticut Public Radio | By Jonathan McNicol
Published October 18, 2018 at 1:00 PM EDT
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan on 'The Walking Dead.'

You know all the reasons Trump won, right?

Economic anxiety. Racial anxiety. The forgotten working class. The forgotten rustbelt...

But what if the real cause were something much simpler and much more pervasive: our popular culture.

This hour, a conversation with Peter Biskind, the author of The Sky Is Falling: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism.

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  • Peter Biskind - The author, most recently, of The Sky Is Falling

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.
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Jonathan McNicol
Jonathan is a producer for ‘The Colin McEnroe Show.’ His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on Connecticut Public’s talk shows and news magazines. He’s as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. Jonathan can be reached at jmcnicol@ctpublic.org.
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