Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
David Pepper, the former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, is out with a new book, Laboratories of Autocracy.
“Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan—and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump’s ‘Big Lie’—it’s anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy.”
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