What Your Brain Really Thinks About Donald Trump

Rick Shenkman joins us on Political Wire Conversations to explain why so many of us are susceptible to politicians’ manipulations – and why so many don’t seem to care.

Shenkman is the author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics. Highly recommended.

Special thanks to the Cook Political Report for sponsoring this episode.

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About Political Wire

Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Wonk Wire, Political Job Hunt and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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