Know Your Enemy #10: Trump Country, with Sarah Jones

Know Your Enemy #10: Trump Country, with Sarah Jones

Journalist Sarah Jones joins hosts Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell to discuss the myth of “Trump Country,” the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, and…the End Times.

President Trump at a rally in Arizona (Gage Skidmore)

Know Your Enemy is a new podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe, rate, and review to the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.

Sarah Jones joins Matt and Sam to discuss the myth of “Trump Country” and the pitfalls of reporting on rural America, and to address the most important question of all: is Donald Trump the Antichrist? (Answer: Probably not.) Sarah’s essay, “Scapegoat Country,” appears in this month’s special issue of Dissent on “Left Paths in Rural America.”

Sarah is a staff writer for New York Magazine, where she covers inequality and national politics. Follow her on Twitter: @OneSarahJones

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