The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year — How Abnormal Becomes Normal
What happens when political events arrive so quickly that yesterday’s shock becomes today’s baseline?
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Using The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year by Amy Siskind as its lens, this episode investigates how information overload, shifting expectations, public memory, and institutional norms interact during periods of rapid political disruption.
Siskind began recording weekly events she considered “not normal” after reading warnings from scholars of authoritarianism about the importance of…
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