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The Dig

MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him. A comprehensive early assessment of what is going on, where it’s coming from, and where it all might be heading.

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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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Trump's manifold idiosyncrasies have always mystified the reality that the ascendant Magafar

1:43.8

right has deep roots in ordinary

1:46.7

American politics and absolutely profound continuities with the Orthodox conservative movement

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