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Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.

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Normalizing the Trump Presidency


Hua Hsu, a contributing writer for newyorker.com and The New Yorker, an associate professor of English at Vassar College and former fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016), and Masha Gessen, the author of several books on Russia, including The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead Books, 2013), talk about what it means to normalize the presidency of Donald Trump, why it's dangerous, and if it can be avoided.

Now: Idealism may seem naive now, but will be crucial in Trump presidency says @huahsu. pic.twitter.com/04yuYproGt

— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 15, 2016


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 November 15, 2016  28m