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Author Mark Chiusano joined the podcast to discuss his deep dive into the political fabrication of George Santos in The Fabulist. Chiusano explained that the book details how Santos built his entire career on comprehensive lies, arguing that this behavior represents a distinctly American tradition brought into the social media era. The conversation highlighted the unsettling conclusion that Santos’s success shows how a regular, shameless person can attain office, which Chiusano suggested was a particularly disturbing development in modern politics.
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Mark Chiusano's book, "The Fabulist," delves into the life of George Santos, detailing his numerous lies and how they contributed to his political career. It explores the lengths to which Santos went to fabricate his persona and what this reveals about American politics.
In a new book called The Fabulous, the lying, hustling, grifting, stealing and very American legend of George Santos, Arthur Mark Cisano does a deep dive on Santos and the life he built on lies.
I think he's a very American figure. I think he is bringing a very old string of a very old American tradition into the social media era of American politics.
It's not just that he makes up every single thing about himself. Yeah, it's not a white lie. It's also not a single lie.
the way his mother described his lying, I think sort of says a lot about what he was doing. She said, when confronted with the lie, she said something like, oh, Anthony and his stories.
what's interesting to me is the Santos story shows that even a regular person can be lying and shameless and get to office. And that is in some senses almost scarier than someone like Trump being able to do it
