Strange Country Ep. 285: Project 2025, Part 2
Jul 11, 2024
In today’s episode Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly slog through the remaining 4,567,324 pages of Project 2025, a manifesto to turn America into Dante’s 8th circle of hell. If you don’t want to face this, the basic gist is anything good and just is gone and is replaced by bad.
Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands.
So many citations, so little time:
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