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The Documentary Podcast

The Year Everything Changed

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This was the year of 'post-truth' politics, fake news and when some of the foundations of how global politics and trade are determined have been questioned. In many ways this has been a year when the silent majority has become vocal, and when old certainties have been questioned. The BBC’s Allan Little examines what really happened in the last 12 months and asks, what next?

Transcript

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0:29.1

It's a little bit after dawn. The sun's just come up in the eastern sky and I've walked down a very steep slope through a very wintery wood the trees, thick trees but all very very This is the first day of the white-tailed deer hunting season. I'm on a farm which belongs to Chuck Erikson and we've come down the slope and up a steep ladder into a little

0:36.1

wooden hide on the edge of the slope.

0:38.8

Here come anywhere in the area here.

0:41.2

You just don't know which way they're going to come for sure.

0:43.0

And the reason why you pick this particular spot in the woods is it's the crossing area for them.

0:48.0

They can come from a one direction that goes.

0:50.0

Western Pennsylvania is Donald Trump country now, blue-collar, plain-speaking patriotic.

0:55.8

I'm Alan Little and in the next half hour I'll be asking how the Western world has been changed

1:01.0

by the election of Donald Trump and by the decision by the United

1:04.4

Kingdom to leave the European Union. The reason I'm sitting in a wood in

1:08.6

Western Pennsylvania at dawn is that Chuck Erickson was one of those so inspired by the Donald Trump campaign

1:15.0

that he started registering people to vote.

1:18.0

For this was once a great industrial state,

1:21.0

coal and steel country that helped turn the United States into a global

1:25.0

superpower. And for much of his adult life Chuck worked in the coal industry. Those industries

1:31.0

were swept away in the age of globalization and open borders,

1:34.3

wiped out by cheaper competition from overseas.

1:37.5

Donald Trump promised to reverse that decline.

1:40.8

We have the best steel-making coal in Western Pennsylvania of

1:44.8

anywhere in the world and there's none getting out of the route. That process to

1:49.6

make steel can come back to our shores and I think that would be tremendous for everybody.

1:55.0

I think he can probably bring that back in the first 100 days of his administration.

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