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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American power, politics and prejudices.

The election is over, but the Americano never stops and there will be a lot to talk about with the second Trump administration.

And so we'll bring you more and more Americano,

because judging from the feedback, that's what you guys want.

So please keep listening.

I am delighted to be joined here in the Spectators' offices

by Jacob Halbrun, senior editor of national interest.

And can I say a senior editor of Absolute Sound?

Correct.

Magazine, which is about audio equipment, not sound in the conservative sense of meaning solid, a solid right-winger.

It's high-end audio.

It's high-end audio.

Jacob has come to London to,

not just to do this, but he wants to talk through the year with the Americana, since you are our most regular guest. And what a year it has been in American politics. A lot has happened.

How do you feel about your country at the moment?

Apprehensive and cautiously optimistic at the same time. I should say from the beginning,

I might have mentioned on the last Americano podcast that I do have to eat some humble pie

since I had predicted that Harris would win a

sweeping and convincing victory. And it turns out that an essay by Roger Kimball and the

spectator was far more accurate than anything I had prognosticated. He said that, in fact,

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