Searching for Star Wars after a national tragedy

"What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists?"

America was attacked on January 6th, 2021 from within. A sitting president fulfilled his many years of promising to not concede a lost election and did so by sicking his fringe supporters on Congress. My podcast which I’ve hosted since 2016, Beltway Banthas, is a Star Wars and politics podcast, but sometimes Star Wars is hard to find in the moments when…