Sh*tshow!

Social conditionsCivilizationEconomic conditionsUnited states, politics and government, 21st centuryUnited states, social conditions, 21st centuryUnited states, race relationsUnited states, civilization, 21st centuryUnited states, economic conditions, 21st century

"In the fall of 2013, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The American people were at a breaking point. The country was going broke and on high boil. It's a shitshow out there. No one in the bubbles of Washington, DC., New York, or Los Angeles was talking about it--least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But, then, perhaps on a whim, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called The Americans, and along the way ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of the American dream. For three years LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a ye llow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and in Flint watching the children get sick from undrinkable water. Racial, political, social, and econ

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