S2 Episode #9: Modern PR and the Power of Spectacle
Propaganda Loves You: Voting Rights Act Gutted, Trump’s PR Stunts, and Mayday Organizing
Kodie, Arthur, and Joe mark a year of the podcast with listener analytics, then play a real-or-fake headlines game that leads into discussion of recent political news. The hosts then cover the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling narrowing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in a Louisiana redistricting case, citing Clarence Thomas’s critique of proportional representation and warning of intensified gerrymandering. They analyze Trump’s long history of publicity stunts and the broader propaganda ecosystem around him…
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