Rachel Maddow Isn’t Done Dredging Up America’s Fascist History

Trump Meat Mess • GOP Convention Concerns • 2024 Revenge Fantasy [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( Rachel Maddow Isn’t Done Dredging Up America’s Fascist History Good Monday morning! Rachel Maddow, out today with a second season of Ultra, her podcast revisiting past fights against authoritarianism in America, [tells]( Charlotte Klein that history “doesn’t just recur. It piles up. And so seeing what we’re standing on is really helpful.” In discussing media coverage of this volatile moment, Maddow warns of “an appeasement problem that arises whenever you’re confronted with this kind of demagogic politics.” Meanwhile, we have an [exclusive excerpt]( this morning from Peter S. Goodman’s new book, How the World Ran Out of Everything, exploring how Donald Trump, in the midst of the COVID epidemic, “stoked baseless fears about meat shortages and personally ordered plants to stay open, all at the behest of the agribusiness lobby.” Plus, Katie Herchenroeder [looks ahead]( to next month’s Republican National Convention, highlighting security concerns and marketing blunders, as well the challenge of staging this quadrennial spectacle on the heels of Trump’s sentencing. Thanks for reading. [Image may contain: Rachel Maddow, Face, Head, Person, Photography, Portrait, Adult, Accessories, Glasses, and Blazer]( [“We Have a Recurring Problem”: Rachel Maddow Isn’t Done Dredging Up America’s Fascist History]( By [Charlotte Klein]( [The MSNBC star plunges back into America’s ultraright with a second installment of her Ultra podcast, a little-known saga with striking parallels to Donald Trump’s demagoguery. History “piles up,” says Maddow. “So seeing what we’re standing on is really helpful.”]( [Read more button](   [How the Trump Administration Sacrificed Slaughterhouse Workers for Meat Monopolies]( By [Peter S. Goodman]( [As COVID ravaged production lines nationwide, the former president stoked baseless fears about meat shortages and personally ordered plants to stay open, all at the behest of the agribusiness lobby, as Peter S. Goodman writes in an excerpt of his new book, How the World Ran Out of Everything.]( [Read more button](   [The Republican National Convention Kicks Off Next Month, and It’s Looking a Little Messy]( By [Katie Herchenroeder]( [The GOP is poised to nominate Donald Trump as their presidential candidate, but the party is wrestling with safety concerns, organizing snafus, and the criminal sentencing of their nominee.]( [Read more button](   [Trump to Attend Event With Group That Believes Abortion Is “Child Sacrifice” and Must Be “Eradicated Entirely”]( By [Bess Levin]( [He’ll be speaking to them virtually.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast