#454 – Saagar Enjeti: Trump, MAGA, DOGE, Obama, FDR, JFK, History & Politics
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🗓️ 8 December 2024
⏱️ 220 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:47) - Why Trump won
(14:48) - Book recommendations
(18:24) - History of wokeism
(25:54) - History of Scots-Irish
(32:32) - Biden
(36:34) - FDR
(38:36) - George W Bush
(40:59) - LBJ
(46:15) - Cuban Missile Crisis
(53:48) - Immigration
(1:25:46) - DOGE
(1:52:27) - MAGA ideology
(1:55:39) - Bernie Sanders
(2:04:00) - Obama vs Trump
(2:21:00) - Nancy Pelosi
(2:24:14) - Kamala Harris
(2:40:00) - 2020 Election
(3:03:49) - Sam Harris
(3:14:55) - UFOs
(3:20:47) - Future of the Republican Party
(3:27:24) - Future of the Democratic Party
(3:35:21) - Hope
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Sagar and Jedi, his second time in the podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | Sagar is a political commentator, journalist, co-host of Breaking Points with Crystal |
| 0:11.0 | Ball, and of the Realignment podcast with Marshall Koslov. |
| 0:17.1 | Sagar is one of the most well-read people I've ever met. His love of history and the wisdom |
| 0:23.1 | gained from reading thousands of history books radiates through every analysis he makes |
| 0:27.8 | of the world. In this podcast, we trace out the history of the various ideological movements |
| 0:33.5 | that led up to the current political moment. In doing so, we mentioned a large number of amazing books. |
| 0:41.3 | We'll put a link to them in the description, |
| 0:43.8 | for those interested to learn more about each topic. |
| 0:47.6 | And now, a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
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| 1:01.3 | for the wallet, and net suite for your business. Choose well as to my friends. Also, if you want |
| 1:05.9 | to get in touch with me, for a multitude of reasons, go to Lexfreedman.com slash contact. And now, onto the full ad reads, I try to make them interesting, but if you |
| 1:15.3 | skip them, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. |
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| 1:25.8 | I'm going to try a new thing where I hold on to a theme as I talk about these ads. |
| 1:33.7 | I use Asleep in the Pod 4 Ultra to cool the bed. And since Sagar knows pretty much more than |
| 1:41.0 | anybody I've ever met about the various U.S. presidents and presidential |
| 1:44.9 | politics and the history of politics in U.S. Let me mention a little factoid. |
| 1:49.5 | Did you know that the White House didn't get air conditioning until 1933 under Hoover, |
| 1:55.9 | who funded it just before leaving office for FDR? So all that praise that Sagar gives to FDR, just remember, |
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