My mother was a Rush Limbaugh-loving conservative. I was so liberal I moved to Canada. In Suasion, I talk about how we lost, then found, a way to talk, what’s behind the great political divide—and why deep understanding is the best weapon in a war of persuasion.

After three decades of listening to Rush Limbaugh, my mother understood what he never will--because we sat together at the same table.Music in this podcast is "Lonely Night" by Caffeine_Creek_Band from Pixabay

4. In the end, together at the table

As my parents turned right, I turned angry. And then my mother and I were forced to find each other across the political chasm.

3. Uncommon ground

My parents and I were friends. In the 1990s, they found Rush Limbaugh and started making a whole lot of assumptions, and all hell broke loose.

2. The Great Divider

The risk I'm taking, turning back the clock to 1992, and why I'm going there now.