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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: How Waco Became a Right-Wing Rallying Cry
Description: Podcast: The Political Scene | The New Yorker (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How Waco Became a Right-Wing Rallying CryPub date: 2023-04-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDonald Trump recently staged the first major rally of his 2024 Presidential campaign in Waco, Texas. Thirty years ago, a botched federal raid on the compound of the Branch Davidians—a heavily-armed splinter group of the Seventh-day Adventist Church dominated by the charismatic David Koresh—led to a harrowing fifty-one-day siege. Just twenty miles from Waco, this st...