Episode 207: McKay Coppins

Published: Aug. 19, 2016, 7:59 p.m.

b'McKay Coppins is a senior political writer for Buzzfeed News and the author of The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party\'s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House.\\n\\n \\u201cI am part of the problem. Not in the sense that it\\u2019s my fault Trump ran, but in the sense that I\\u2019m one of many who for his entire life have mocked him and ridiculed him. He\\u2019s a billionaire\\u2014I don\\u2019t feel any moral guilt about it. But if being I\\u2019m honest with myself that same part of me can also, when not checked, be projected onto vast swathes of people. It\\u2019s easy to have a lazy classism about the type of people who would vote for Donald Trump.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\n@mckaycoppins\\nMcKay Coppins\\u2019 Buzzfeed Archive\\n[2:28] "A Mormon Reporter On The Romney\\xa0Bus" (Buzzfeed \\u2022 Nov 2012\\n[10:56] No Man Knows My History (Fawn M Brodie \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 1995)\\n[11:18] Rough Stone Rolling (Richard Lyman Bushman \\u2022 Vintage \\u2022 2007)\\n[14:20] 36 Hours On The Fake Campaign Trail With Donald\\xa0Trump(Buzzfeed \\u2022 Feb 2014)\\n[25:40] The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party\'s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House (Little, Brown \\u2022 2015)\\n[30:05] Donald Trump\\u2019s Mormon Problem (New York Times \\u2022 Jun 2016)\\n[32:35] "Trump Campaign Rally Erupts In Chaos And Ugly Confrontation " (Buzzfeed \\u2022 Dec 2015)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'