How did America turn from a fairly health democracy into an angry, bitter group of tribes that believe their own stories and reject facts, science, government institutions and intellectual inquiry. Or have we always been this way? Journalist Nina Burleigh has been writing about these issues for years. You can draw a line from JFK’s affairs to the election of Donald Trump and the handling of the COVID pandemic for clues to how it got this way. Burleigh is the author of many books on politics and culture, including our handling of the pandemic and the assassination of Mary Meyer, the mistress of JFK and ex-wife of a high level CIA official. Burleigh connects the dots.