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🗓️ 28 January 2025
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0:00.0 | From New York Times opinion, this is the Ezra Klein Show. Second terms are usually intellectually exhausted. |
0:35.2 | And maybe if Trump had been reelected in 2020, that's how it would be. |
0:39.0 | But he wasn't. And so between 2021 and 2025, the ferment driving Maga's ideas deepened quite a bit. |
0:47.7 | The nature of its coalition expanded quite a bit. How much does Trump himself care about this fight over ideas, these visions of the future? |
0:58.0 | I'm not sure he does. But the people were staffing his administration, both people at the top, |
1:03.9 | but much more than that, the 20 and 30-somethings who actually do the work of presidencies, they do care. |
1:10.0 | Ideas do matter. The intellectual cultures |
1:12.5 | that form political parties, they matter. James Pogue is a contributing writer at Times' opinion, |
1:19.0 | and he's been covering the new right at Vanity Fair, and over the past few years, he has published |
1:23.4 | piece after great peace on the MAG intellectual scene and the various factions and ideas and people |
1:28.9 | within it. As I wanted to talk with him about the ideas that hold MAGA together, the factional |
1:34.0 | fights that threaten to tear it apart, and whether any of this actually affects what President |
1:39.0 | Donald Trump does or thinks. As always, my email as a recline show at NMytimes.com. |
1:54.0 | James Pogue, welcome to the show. |
1:56.0 | Thanks for having me. |
1:56.8 | I'm so honored. |
1:57.8 | So you've been covering the new right for a while now. |
2:01.6 | How would you describe the thing you've been covering? |
2:04.8 | Is it a coalition? |
2:06.8 | Is it a scene? |
2:08.7 | What's the term for it? |
2:10.4 | It's a coalition now. |
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