What happened to 'The Resistance'?
Forty days into his second term, many are wondering: what happened to 'The Resistance.'
Franklin Foer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and joins us to discuss 'Resistance Fatigue,' the Trump administration's plan to overwhelm the attention of the public, and whether people are, today, too overburdened to care.
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