Rick Perlstein is an author, journalist, and historian who has written extensively about the rise of the American radical conservative movement and he joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz to discuss the dangerous impact this movement can have on our democracy.  Rick is concerned that the main-stream media in the US isn’t giving sufficient coverage to this issue which allows disinformation and violent rhetoric to fill the airways.  He argues that only a mobilized electorate can be an effective counter-balance to the descent into fascism brought about by a vocal and aggressive minority taking over the Republican Party.  It’s not difficult to find fault with fascist folly.

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