The Good Fight Club: The Vibe Shift That Wasn’t, White Identity Politics, and “When They Go Low, We Go Low&#

And like the psychology of Trump is about revenge seeking. It's about vengeance. It's about the addiction to revenge seeking. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Welcome to the 15th episode of A Good Fight Club.

I'm really excited to have a star-studded cast of people to help me think through this very strange cultural moment in the United States today. I have with me Amanda Ripley, who is the founder of Good Conflict and a writer of many books I have really enjoyed. I have here Jesse Single, who is the uh co-host of Blocked and Reported and he gave me all kinds of other inappropriate ways to introduce him that I'm gonna skip.

And I have here uh Thomas Chatterton Williams who is a staff writer at The Atlantic. And of course they've all written wonderful books and so on uh as well. All right well you know it strikes me that we're in a strange frenetic moment in American culture that also is a kind of weird interlude. You know, it felt around 2025, 2024, as far there was this much discussed vibe shift.

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