Chris Hedges is the author of the new book America: The Farewell Tour.

He is also the author of numerous award winning books including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Death of a Liberal Class, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.

Chris Hedges and Chauncey discuss how America is a deeply sick and pathological society, why Donald Trump is the symptom and not the cause of this disease, and the role of celebrity culture and consumerism in the downfall of American democracy.

Chris Hedges and Chauncey also reflect on the need for a more advanced and sophisticated understanding of how race and class relate to one another and the perils of empty symbolic politics such as the so-called "Women's March". Chris Hedges also explains why peoples resistance movements such as Standing Rock and the Ferguson Uprising are the real way forward if American democracy and a humane and free society are to finally be created and salvaged in the country. 

During this week's podcast Chauncey asks, "What year is it?" when New Age Jim Crow Enforcers are keeping black folks from voting in Georgia, Jewish-Americans and others are being made into second class citizens by Christian fascists with the support of the Trump regime, and the fascist bigot Donald Trump tells transgender people that their personhood is "illegal" and their identities do not exist under American law. 

On this week's show Chauncey also celebrates Jeremiah Harvey, a 9-year-old black child, who refused to forgive a white racist woman who claimed he groped her. 

SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW 

• Chris Hedges at Truthdig
• Chris Hedges discusses America: The Farewell Tour
• The Wizard of Voter Suppression: Brian Kemp’s Long History of Making Black Votes Disappear
• Black kid wrongly accused of groping white woman: 'I don't forgive this woman, and she needs help'
• The Trump administration’s latest anti-transgender action, explained
• South Carolina is Lobbying to Allow Discrimination Against Jewish Parents

IF YOU ENJOYED THIS WEEK'S SHOW YOU MAY LIKE THESE EPISODES OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW AS WELL

Ep. 208: Max Boot Explains Why the Republican Party Needs to be Burned to the Ground

Ep. 195: Richard Painter on Why He is No Longer a Republican and Trump's Threat to American Democracy

Ep. 186: Reza Aslan on How Donald Trump has Turned White Christian Evangelicals Into a Cult 

Ep. 184: Ed Ayers Explains Why Americans are Still Fighting About the Civil War

Ep. 164: Henry Giroux Evaluates America One Year After Donald Trump

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