RNC EDITION: How Much Can One Nation Take?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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On this week’s “Inside the Hive,” Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan parse Trump's ghastly RNC, discussing what the Trump children’s speeches tell us about the family’s inner workings and the psyche of their narcissistic paterfamilias. As the GOP tries to turn the social unrest in Wisconsin into a suburban fear factor and tie it to Joe Biden, our hosts wonder whether this week’s convention—or the DNC, for that matter—will have any lasting impact. Plus: Joe Hagan talks to author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates about his role guest editing the September issue of Vanity Fair, which focuses on the Black Lives Matter movement and the fallout from the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Arriving in print and online during the Repulican National Convention, the issue aims directly at the heart of what’s at stake in this year’s election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, afternoon, evening. We have reached the end of another week. I am Emily
0:08.9	Jane Fox here with my co-host Joe Hagen, hi Joe I'm exhausted we did it barely yeah why are you so
0:18.5	tired I'm exhausted by the news intake.
0:23.0	Yeah, the news intake.
0:24.5	It's been like the fire hose to the face
0:27.0	all week long with hurricanes, social unrest, propaganda, lies, conspiracies, you know, I, like a lot of people you get to where you're on Twitter your social media you're looking at your news and it becomes like a
0:50.3	feedback loop of horror and then you become numb and you just need somebody to
0:56.3	slap you in the face and remind you that this isn't all your life. I'm very depressed after this week. Well I'm here to slap you
1:07.2	I remember last week I was like I'm optimistic I'm optimistic. This week was like
1:11.6	the battering ram that sort of like crushed the tin can.
1:16.0	That was by design though like yeah the Democrats message during the DNC was a moment of hope and a way to uplift you.
1:26.5	And the message of the Republican National Convention is the exact opposite.
1:30.5	It is, they're coming for you in your streets white people.
1:35.0	The law and order party is here to save you from the social movements that are pushing progress in our streets.
1:45.0	The coronavirus doesn't exist in this world.
1:50.0	President Trump has done a remarkable job of pulling our country out of a pandemic despite all
1:55.9	evidence of the contrary and our president is a man who is empathetic kind and
2:01.4	father of the year.
2:02.6	Every year.
2:03.6	That's the message that we've gotten this week.
2:05.6	It's not, it's not uplifting.
2:08.2	It is deeply delusional.
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