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Talking About Revolutions: an interview with Experiment 34’s Matthew Makin SHARE BUTTON Politics have leaked into everything, and a lot of toxic ideas have been normalized into daily discourse. It’s gotten so bad, many individuals had to radically rethink their just-passed holiday plans for fear of ruining them with interfamily fighting. Oddly, the one place we haven’t NJ STAGE - ISSUE 55 by DW Dunphy seen a spirited response to this present darkness is in the world of rock where, by and large, criticism and retort have been muted. Amanda Palmer’s assertion that “Donald Trump is going to make punk rock great again*” has not yet come to pass. This may be ready to change, however. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 6