In this episode, with Sasha unable to make the recording, Chris and Jim discuss Watergate, the 1980 election, and other events from US political history with a view to their parallels to today's situation.
Much of the discussion is prompted by Jim's reading Rick Perlstein's book The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan (available as an e-book here - https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Rick-Perlstein/The-Invisible-Bridge--The-Fall-of-Nixon-and-the-Rise-of-Reagan/16166184)
Perlstein, a historian of the American right, has unsurprisingly intervened in the current debate, for example at the links below -
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/28/rick_perlstein_rnc_trump_fascism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/15/rick-perlstein-reaganland-donald-trump-nixon-republicans
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/rick-perlstein-on-the-republican-party-from-reagan-to-trump/

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