Edwin Eisendrath is joined by Amanda Macotte, senior politics writer at Salon.com. She discussed her new YouTube series "Standing Room Only" and her recent deep dive into the Christian prayer app Hallow, which features celebrities like Chris Pratt and Mark Wahlberg. Marcotte criticized the app's conservative Catholic content, including a course called "The Feminine Genius" that promotes "this notion that women are uniquely made to be submissive, giving . . . basically that women were meant to be the support system of men, especially, but also families, communities -- just traditional sexist gender stuff," she told WCPT.
Marcotte revealed that she is "really worried" that "this Biden age situation and the coverup of it," as reported in the recent book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," is "going to continue to haunt the party. And you can yell at journalists until you're blue in the face, it's not going to change anything, because it's going to just be like catnip to journalists to ask Democratic politicians, especially those who want to run for president, about the coverup of Biden's age-related decline. And if people can't just answer the question in an honest way, they're going to end up reinforcing these already negative stereotypes that Democrats are just a bunch of consultant creatures that never, ever speak from the heart or never, ever tell you the truth."
Marcotte also addressed the Trump administration's adoption of white nationalist conspiracy theories, particularly the myth of white genocide in South Africa.
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