Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump Revisited, with David Shields

About this Episode

My guest is David Shields. He's the author of numerous books including Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump: An Intervention. It can be read in a variety of ways: as a psychological investigation of Trump, as a philosophical meditation on the relationship between language and power, as a satirical compilation of the “collected wit and wisdom of Donald Trump,” and above all as a dagger into the rhetoric of American political discourse—a dissection of the politesse that gave rise to and sustains Trump. The book’s central thesis is that we have met the enemy and he is us. Who else but David Shields would make such an argument, let alone pull it off with such intelligence, brio, and wit, not to mention leaked off-air transcripts from Fox News?

David returns to the show to revisit his book in light of the Corona pandemic.