S2 E17) WHEN SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES

When smoke gets in your eyes... and the fire is thousands of miles away, it’s time to stop denying climate change. When a million extra people die in the peak year of a pandemic, it’s time to stop equating COVID-19 with the flu. When the prevalence of guns and that of gun deaths both happen to skyrocket, it’s time to stop feigning blindness to any connection between the two. When the President of the United States orders up an insurrection, it’s time to stop pretending that he had no idea he’d actually get one. MAGA has long since made a habit of painting all these catastrophes as a string of amaaaaayyyyzing coincidences about which Americans and their leaders can and should do nothing. Therefore, host Tish Durkin argues, it’s way past time for the rest of us to treat their movement like a Canadian forest, and burn it to the ground.