I taped the interview with today’s guest yesterday. Luke Mogelson has enjoyed a long, storied career covering wars around the word for publications from the NY Times to the Atlantic and beyond. He was most recently in Ukraine, when he began seeing the ugly signs of right wing extremism growing stronger and louder here at home. He decided to come back and cover what was happening.
He arrived at the Michigan statehouse just as a group was trying to enter to kidnap and perhaps assassinate Gov Whitmer. He continued, going to DC on Jan6– first at the ellipse, then following the unruly crowd to and inside the Capitol, shooting stunning video on his phone.
The result is the book, “The Storm is Here: An American Crucible. Even with the incontrovertible evidence of what these creatures were capable of, Luke wasn’t willing to call them out to the extent I was.
Still, it’s an important book on what could be the defining turning point in the battle to continue this American experiment with Democracy.
(** Post show postscript — I called an audible. We’re going to run that interview on Monday. I opted to stay with Lisa Graves a little longer, and deal with the awful DeSantis situation a bit longer, as I wanted to show how the people of Martha’s Vineyard rose to the occasion and showed how humans should behave!…. So we’ll hear from Luke Mogelson on Monday)….
Meanwhile, we’re all watching the situation unfurl on Martha’s Vineyard, summer home to the very rich and reclusive. I’ll have an update on the disconnect between reality and the actions of a few assholes who happen to be governors of Magat states….
But we’ll start with the news that broke last night… the so-called judge (named by Trump with zero qualifications to a lifetime appointment in a federal court) who bent over backwards to do TFG’s bidding and ruled against the DOJ, keeping them from dealing with the reams of confidential documents stolen by Trump when he left the White House. To explain just what a travesty and perversion of justice this is, we’ll start the show with Lisa Graves, who served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton and W Bush administrations….
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