Ep. 239: Ben Fountain Explains How American Democracy is Broken and the Country is Burning

Summary: Ben Fountain is the author of the award-winning novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Fountain traveled across the country following Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to document that political and social disaster as it took place in real time. The result is his new book Beautiful Country Burn Again. Fountain explains the deep and burning rage in America from a lack of hope and limited dreams, why Trump's deplorables love him so much, and how America's democracy went so wrong.