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Jared Yates Sexton

Jared Yates Sexton is the author of American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, forthcoming from Dutton/Penguin-Random House. Currently, he serves as an associate professor of writing at Georgia Southern University and is the co-host of The Muckrake Political Podcast.

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March 25, 2020
Jared Yates Sexton
The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plague
Those who see Trump as a messianic figure believe the coronavirus will put a fallen world right again.
October 15, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Donald Trump’s Campaign Has Become a Cult
Friday's rally in Charlotte took Trumpism to a frightening new level.
August 19, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Trump’s Train Considers a Scary Thought: He Might Lose
And if he does, it will be all the media's fault.
August 8, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
The Green Party Has No Shame
The party's national convention this weekend was a blatant—and often questionable—play for Bernie Sanders's disgruntled supporters.
July 25, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
The “Bernie or Bust” protesters sound a lot like those “Lock Her Up” Republicans.
July 20, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Who Sells These Crude, Misogynistic Trump T-Shirts? Men Like “D.C. Dave.”
July 20, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Gays for Trump” party in Cleveland was as lame as you’d expect.
July 19, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
Is another #NeverTrump walkout planned for Donald’s big speech?
July 18, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
The cops just love these open-carry clowns.
July 18, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
A man came to the RNC today wearing a shirt that read “CUCK HUNT” and an assault rifle strapped to his back.
July 6, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
There Will Be Blood
At a Donald Trump rally, supporters call for the death of Hillary Clinton.
June 22, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
I Told the Truth About a Donald Trump Rally. Then the Trolls Threatened My Life.
June 15, 2016
Jared Yates Sexton
American Horror Story
A Donald Trump rally is a homophobic, misogynistic, racist nightmare.

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