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Kurt Andersen has been tooling on Donald Trump for decades\\u2014the Spy magazine co-founder once even tricked the Donald into cashing a check for 17 cents. But, Andersen tells Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson, Trump did us all a favor. He showed America just how rigged our system is in favor of the ultra-rich. \\u201cHis final ad [of the 2016 campaign] was all \\u2018Wall Street has taken all of your wealth and ruined the working class. And we must defeat these people of whom my opponent is a puppet,\\u2019\\u201d Anderson recounts on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. \\u201cWell, yeah, you had a point. But you didn\'t actually govern at all on that basis. So maybe, maybe he\'s sort of put that critique of the system on the table\\u201d\\u2014especially for Republicans who couldn\\u2019t take in that kind of message from someone left-of-center. Rick, the GOP consultant, says it\\u2019s time for Republicans to realize that \\u201cthe party of free markets is full of shit because it [isn\\u2019t] about free markets. It\\u2019s about gaining enough power to use the regulatory state and legislative process to advantage your individual companies or markets. That\'s not capitalism, that\'s crony capitalism on a good day and something much worse on a bad one.\\u201d Then! Molly and Rick answer listener questions, revealing how they met (not on a chain gang, they swear) and what their surprising super powers are (\\u201cI can hit my head on almost anything,\\u201d says Molly). Plus! Will our dynamic duo actually open a dogfighting pit, or will they go straight to selling meth? And what does Rick enjoy more than \\u201cgetting rip shit on cheap gin and watching the Teletubbies?\\u201d

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