Terror in Ohio: How Trump-MAGA Rage Is Ripping Apart a Small Town
At this week\u2019s debate, Donald Trump\xa0spread the deranged lie\xa0that immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio. Tensions are escalating and terror is spreading: Haitian immigrants living there\xa0say they fear\xa0for their safety, and on Thursday, Springfield\u2019s City Hall was\xa0evacuated\xa0due to a bomb threat. What if these searing tensions are exactly what Trump and his MAGA allies want? Not that they want violence, but rather that they see supercharged social rifts as desirable? We talked to Andrew Egger, a writer for The Bulwark who has a\xa0good new piece\xa0on Springfield, about how this saga opens a window on the darkness and malevolence of the MAGA movement. Listen to this episode\xa0here.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices