Outspoken author Salmon Rushdie joins MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber, to discuss his new book ‘Quichotte,’ a fictional reimagining of 'Don Quixote' in the Trump era. Rushdie slams Trump, and leaders from India and Britain for ‘inventing a mythology of a false past.’ Though Rushdie’s novel is fictional, he tackles many realities, including the opioid crisis, which he says reflects the ‘loneliness in America’ from people ‘living isolated lives, seeking succor.’
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Rushdie Decodes: Nationalists Can't Survive Without Fake History | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
Implausible things are now everyday reality. Yup.
Welcome to a new age? XD
Yeah. It gets more head scratching by the minute.
Because we accept them. That’s the reality.
Someone should put Rushdie and the bloviating Hungarian Sebastian Gorka and watch Rushdie dismantle him
@Mark Haddox There is no debate with Gorka. There is no debate with nuking hurricanes (Trump’s idea). There is no debate with biggots, fascists, nationalists and the like. We’re not going to debate human rights, human values, respect for one another and so on. Some things are not debatable. Those debates might have happened when we lived in caves. We already know (or should know) better now.
@Eusunt Dac so you agree with me. The leftist ideology cant even win a debate against a bigot. Their arguments are so weak they have to insult and be dismissive of their political opponents. They have to deplatform, censor, and run away from debate. That is a religion not a political ideology. Think about it if someone believes the sky is red are you afraid to debate them? Do you have to silence them?
Radical Right Wing Terrorism
Say it again for the people in the back!!!!
#TRUMPbelongs2RUSSIA
Radical Right Wing White Supremacist Terrorism. Let’s not leave anything out!
LOL, ignore gang violence, broken cities and open borders. Good job numb nuts. The fat guy under a fatwa is a tool of the establishment.
This is getting so exhausting.
America is Frankenstein, and Trump is our monster! There will be mobs in the streets, with pitchforks and torches before the story is over! That prediction seams immanent!
The future is chaotic just like the present and past. This is prediction nonsense from narrow minded fear without common sense about it.
@John Hanks You obviously haven’t been listening to what Trump’s staunchest supporters have been spewing.
John Brattan LOL Mr. Hanks is in freefall over a different planet.
You obviously are another egotistic clown now knowing nothing about me. Narrow minded without common sense.
@John Hanks Yet, you wanted to grace us in the comment section with your over-inflated intelligence.
The reality of watching someone spit your food and still eat it. The truth is hard to swallow. MAGA? nope.
Make America Gag Again?
White Nationalists are the Enemy of America and all Humanity.
@Sicklady Hey, if you take a break from drinking your own urine, this fat guy survived his Fatwa by hiding out in Canada and the US. He should pick up his ego and take a spin through dear Iran.
I love you but please don’t do that thing Trump does where he capitalizes random words in a sentence.
Yes. These people need putting back in their box. If they can’t be reached, at least let them not poison the minds of the next generation.
@1247.cc does your username describe your cranial capacity or your motorcycle’s displacement? if your cranial capacity, then your brain probably rattles around like a pebble in a tin can. if it’s your bike’s displacement, Harleys aren’t famous for “cutting edge” tech or forward thinking.
how would you survive a fatwa against yourself? bravely as in “I regret that I have etc.” or hide out in a safe place?
That was a well done interview Ari. Thank you.
Those that aren’t allowed to observe life are doomed to commit it. Or you could just get off your perch and grab a shovel.
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Dang his books are epics, I can’t wait.
Great interview, thank you Ari and Salman Rushdie.
Welcome to the Quantum Mechanical World. If there are 50 Million Insane Right Wing racist Americans, it is “inevitable” (By Accident) that one of them will become President with his Red Make America Great Again hat made in China.
Ivy
👍👍
You are totally ignorant. Good for you.
Trump is a Russian asset, no doubt whatsoever.
@tonak1 Loser
Mindful Drone I’ll just double down on my first comment, the lefties in here are the ones in love with communism, not Trump.
@tonak1 NO RUBLE FOR YOU TODAY IVAN, DO NOT MAKE ME WRITE YOU UP TO INTERNET RESEARCH AGENCY
@tonak1 GO SHOOT UP KROKODILE
When you inject an immoral, sociopathic, narcissistic, racist, compulsive liar with a lack of empathy as President you are introducing a toxic poison ☠️ into the halls of Government….the result can be paralysis, to a heavy hangover
Was Barry that bad? He bombed Doctors without Borders but you didn’t know that.
1247.cc Whose Barry????
@5cloudwalker Two hints: Jailed whistleblowers and spied on citizens for political ends. Yes, that Barry.
@1247.cc We all know that. “Butobama! Butobama!” Isn’t a defence against Trumplestiltskin and his disgusting behavior. As Chomsky said, all the US presidents in the last hundred years, with one exception, could be indicted as war criminals.
Thank you both for this wonderful interview!!!
Mr. Rushdie’s thinking always seems so concise.
All conservatives love to revise history to fit their present-day agendas. Some are now claiming the late, drunken Senator Joe McCarthy, R-WS) might have been correct.
What does the drinking habits of McCarthy have to do with the participation of soviet concepts in the US. Wake up, sport.
While the left denounces him totally but takes up his tactics.
Uff! … interview so refreshing!…We need more bright interviews like this on the news before the toxicity of the Moron-in-Chief’s Twitter feed kills all our neurons.
I disagree with Mr. Rushdie. We all live in a world of rules. The people who have cornered power and wealth are above the law. They can buy lawyers, the courts, law enforcement, everything. It is not a mystery. These kinds of people live separate and privileged lives and from primary school to death they have the money/power to cancel out what may be called the social contract. No mystery, just vast amounts of wealth.
We’ll done Ari
Salman is the kind of secular free
Thinking humanist we need to have
A platform in this dark time we are facing
Sometimes I find my self looking for
A hero like Christopher Hitchens the true gate keepers of our time
Salman is one of those people
Please keep giving them platforms
thank you Mr. Rushdie
time’s arrow does not point backwards