Guest: Damon Root @ Reason Magazine, Author, "A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution" <ul><li>Trump Makes His Pick</li><li>How Republicans Will Be Disappointed</li><li>Court Packing And Other Shenanigans</li><li>Historical Context, Oppressing People of Color</li><li>COVID Rumors</li><li>Debate Night Dog Whistles</li><li>What Trump Really Means</li><li>Vote by Mail (But Throw Out the Ballots)</li><li>The First and Only Lady</li></ul> Recorded Oct 1, 2020Published Oct 3, 2020 <hr> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://www.wethefifth.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">www.wethefifth.com/subscribe</a>

207 "Hunter's Laptop, Ordinary Corruption, Darkest Night"

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com