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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

What happened to conservative intellectuals? By 2020, many found themselves with zero support among a right wing base that despises them.

Yet others, Paleocons, West Coast Rousians, found in our smooth-brained former president, a champion for their long-held ideas.

My guests today are Sam Adler Bell and Matt Sitman, the host of Know Your Enemy, a wonderful podcast about the American right that I listen to religiously.

This episode is a wide-ranging lengthy discussion on the history of American conservative intellectuals, and where things sit now, now that the American right has become an almost wholly owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

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