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The Self-Devouring State - The Fifth Column
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October 30, 2025
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0:53Now PlayingA weary acknowledgment of our new political reality: when conspiracy influencers and culture-war opportunists end up with government jobs, maybe the least we can ask is that they turn on each other for our amusement. From The Fifth Column episode “They Don’t Care About Us,” a reminder that politics has become reality TV…and we’re the captive audience.
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Hosted by journalists Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, The Fifth Column provides a weekly rhetorical assault on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally themselves.
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