#96 Is Trump's America a failed state? w/ Bhaskar Sunkara

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Bhaskar Sunkara joins me to talk about the violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin and collusion between the far right and the police, whether the frightening prospect of a second Trump administration makes a rerun of the 2016 election result less likely - in spite of Joe Biden's underwhelming policy platform - and we also talked about the prospect of the American right breaking from its relative economic orthodoxy and moving towards advocacy of a meaningful industrial policy.

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0:35.6	so Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.
0:50.5	My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Baskar Sankara.
0:54.3	We talked about the recent events in Kenosha, Wisconsin and collusion between the far right and the police.
0:59.5	Whether the frightening prospect of a second Trump administration makes a rerun of the 2016 election result less likely,
1:05.6	in spite of Joe Biden's underwhelming policy platform.
1:08.2	And we also talked about whether the American right may at some point break from
1:12.0	its relative economic orthodoxy and move towards advocacy of a meaningful industrial policy.
1:17.8	Today's show is brought to you by PTO supporters on Patreon and also by VVVVERS books,
1:22.2	who have lots of titles that may be of interest to PTO listeners.
1:26.0	As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological
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