Leo R. Chavez
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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John Kennedy's administration doing that?
Even the Bush, even he was reviled, but even the Bush administration doing that?
I mean, it's just...
such a new low that most of us have no idea how to really contemplate it.
And so in a sense, I hope my book helps us understand that a little bit, what's going on, how that's taken place over the last 30, 40, 50 years, because it's almost unexplicable that there's people willing to allow this kind of rhetoric and actions, but rhetoric really to be so front and center and
in the administration of the United States of America.
It's just unbelievable, really.
So I think, like many academics, we're all trying to just get over the actual awe of what's happening to try and make some sense of it.
And I hope my book adds a little bit to that sense of trying to come to grips with what's happening.
And I think...
What we're seeing in the polls, as you know, is that people are trying to reject those ideas because, in a sense, they're very un-American.
I mean, they're extremely un-American, and I think people recognize that.
And hopefully we'll see, as we always do in politics, you know, a sort of one wave begets another wave in the opposite direction.
And I'm hoping...
That's what happens.
And I think, well, as you put it, we're sort of lambasted as inventors of information rather than scientists or creators of knowledge in the contemporary right-wing political discourse.
People get tired of that.
And I think hopefully they're going to start asking, well,
where's the evidence for what you're saying?
I mean, you're saying it, but that doesn't mean it's true, is it?
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