Season two of Impolitic kicks off with a (Soviet) bang, as Sean imagines a Cossack in 1917 Petrograd confronting the spectre of an underwhelming musical / bio-pic of P.T. Barnum. Then, Sean and Paul talk about what they were up to over the holiday break, namely the pleasant if apathetic state of politics in France and an incident of whitesplaining at the American Society of Church History’s annual conference. They also cover Trump’s latest racist dribbling, give an update on their net neutrality conversation, and close with some thoughts on which MLK we should commemorate on Monday.