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Doth Protest Art Protest Too Little?

Trump Putin Art
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A painting depicting President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladmir Putin at Phoenix First Friday in summer 2017.

There’s been no shortage of reactions from the art and music worlds to the current state of American politics broadly — and the Trump administration specifically.

But Spencer Kornhaber argues the reaction this time is different than in the past. Kornhaber is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where he writes about popular culture.

He’s the author of a piece called “ Pop Culture’s Failure to Rage,” and he joined The Show to discuss his argument.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.