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    David Duke | 3. The Nazi and the Republicans

    David Duke | 3. The Nazi and the Republicans

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    David Duke | 3. The Nazi and the Republicans

    FromSlow Burn

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    56 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 24, 2020
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    In 1989, David Duke got a foothold in American politics. To build on that victory, he’d have to
    fend off a Republican official determined to bring him down.

    In the third episode of our series: the people who tried to stop David Duke’s rise, and the ones
    who accommodated him.

    Season 4 of Slow Burn is produced by Josh Levin and Christopher Johnson. Mixing by Paul
    Mounsey. Slow Burn’s production assistant is Madeline Ducharme and Sophie Summergrad is
    the podcast’s assistant producer.

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    Released:
    Jun 24, 2020
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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.