The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump — The Cynicism Loop
What if contempt for politics helps produce the dysfunction that makes people despise politics in the first place?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Death of Politics: How to Heal Our Frayed Republic After Trump by Peter Wehner as our lens, this episode examines how cultural displacement, economic anxiety, polarization, institutional distrust, media fragmentation, and failures of political leadership can converge into a self-reinforcing politics of contempt.
Wehner presents Donald Trump as both an amplifier and a symptom of this longer…
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