Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era (w/ Susan Neiman) | TCHR

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There are many books exploring how and why voters in the United States elected President Donald Trump, but author Susan Neiman argues that “Nobody has really focused on the moral background to this administration and to our acceptance of it.” It was that void she sought to fill in her newest book, “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era.” Neiman joins Hedges in this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss her new book and examine the crises of today: the rise of fascism, the ravages of neoliberalism, and how institutions and individuals have surrendered to them. Ideology, Neiman explains, are assumptions so ingrained in a culture that individuals often see them as “iron laws,”…