Trump wants you Dumb & Mean: A Conversation with Ben Sheehan
August 12, 2025
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Trump wants you Dumb & Mean: A Conversation with Ben Sheehan
Summary
Don’t feel bad if you don’t know how the government works. It’s by design. Today we talk to the Host of PBS’s Civics Made Easy about the importance of offering Americans the kind of knowledge we should have but don’t, on a network that the government should fund, but won’t. Ben wants us to, “Get caught up together” and Trump wants us as stupid as possible.
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