Ben Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Fountain traveled across the country during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to document that political and social disaster as it took place in real time. The result is his most recent book Beautiful Country Burn Again.

Fountain explains the deep and burning rage in America from a lack of hope and limited dreams which in turn helped to spawn Trumpism, why Trump's deplorables love him so, and how America's democracy went so wrong. Fountain also highlights how the Democratic Party shares no small amount of responsibility for Trump's reactionary movement because they succumbed to neoliberalism and abandoned American workers to the gangster capitalists.

On this week's show Chauncey DeVega says what must be said about (now private citizen) Robert Mueller: he is a coward and not a hero. Chauncey also warns the public that Trump and his personal bodyguard and human shield William Barr are and will be collecting receipts against their enemies such as journalists and reporters who dare to tell the truth about this regime.

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

• Billionaires!
• Bill Moyers Talks To Author Ben Fountain About Trump’s Triumph
• Last week, Trump nearly knocked out democracy: Can it still be saved?
• Corporations paid $91 billion less in taxes in 2018 under Trump's tax law
• Alien Sightings Overshadowed by 3-Day Weekend
• Barr Is Cool With the FBI Spying on Any American Except Trump
• 2020 Candidates Call for Impeachment in Response to Mueller’s Press Conference
• In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
• Study Finds Trump Tax Cuts Failed to Do Anything But Give Rich People Money

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

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Ep. 218: What Type of a White Person Do You Want to Be?

Ep. 210: Donald Trump is Responsible for the Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre and the "MAGA Bomber"

Ep. 209: Chris Hedges Explains How America is a Diseased Society and Donald Trump is the Symptom

Ep. 190: Black Genius and Childish Gambino's "This is America"

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Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.