Garrison Davis

Cork, this woman, Ann Beeson, and now the CEO is— They exposed themselves to some serious liability there.

And yeah, I mean, I got a good settlement out of it, which is, you know, I would have preferred just to be able to just continue doing my job though.

Yeah, oh sure.

They're doing union busting.

They're firing you for having a mental health crisis.

They're opposed to you exercising your free speech off the clock.

The kinds of things you just, you don't want to see from an organization like the SPLC.

So yeah, like that happened.

And then bringing it back to Berkeley Springs, I was told not to go anywhere, but I needed to keep working on the book.

So I guess I understand why some of the reviewers call it disturbing, but that sort of full circle, that sort of personal closure, you know, obviously things weren't ideal, right?

You lost your job, but I don't know, like things came full circle and the people that you went there to write about took care of you and you, I don't know, you all continue along your way as the world falls apart.

I don't think that they come across as like perfect either.

I mean, like that's what I'm really hopeful for.

No, I mean, they're all complicated people.

You know, I wanted to avoid like this sort of wishy-washy utopian, like, I'm an ally, you know, and it's like, yeah, actually the people who are allies have all kinds of issues.

They have marital problems.

Maybe some of them are like behave badly in one thing or whatever.

We're all people trying to live.

very rapidly by the likes of Steve Bannon and Brimlow and others.

It was a collective push to take the existing right-wing monster and set it in this direction.