Sir Isaac Newton coined the phrase that became his third law: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. But this is not only true of science – it is also true of politics.
Canadian author Stephen Marche, whose new book The next Civil War: Dispatches from America’s Future record what he saw while reporting on the far right in Ohio, aka Country of the Oath Keepers, which appeared in this bonus episode of New anomaly to speak with host Molly Jong-Fast.
“Everything fits together,” he explains. “Inequality leads to bad electoral decisions, leads to bad policies, leads to…” Well, not great things. One good example Marche gives is Donald Trump.
