A Year of Trump 2.0; A Decade of the War on Truth (ft. Heather Cox Richardson)

Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov

Prof G Media / Vox Media

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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It’s officially been one year of Trump 2.0—and it’s hard to overstate just how much has changed. Trump is back in the Oval Office with fewer guardrails, a more loyal team, and a far greater willingness to push presidential power than ever before. Jessica Tarlov sits down with historian and Letters from an American writer Heather Cox Richardson to take stock of Trump’s first year back in office—how history may remember it, what it means to have a president with so few constraints, his open assault on truth and democratic norms, and whether the U.S. is sliding toward an imperial presidency. Then, they turn to Trump’s unlikely transformation from anti-globalist firebrand to guest of honor in Davos—and what that shift says about today’s global order and the possible unraveling of the post–World War II diplomatic system. And finally, they unpack the sudden wave of 2016 nostalgia online: why people are longing for that moment, and what we’re really missing when we call it “the last normal year.” Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov. Follow Prof G, @profgalloway. Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RagingModerates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.7	Welcome to Raging Moderates.
1:06.2	I'm Jessica Tarlov and am so wildly excited to have Heather Cox Richardson with us. Historian extraordinaire,
1:13.8	the hugely popular substack, letters from an American that we're all subscribers to. Thank you for
1:20.2	being here. Thank you for having me. I'm quite excited about this conversation myself.
1:24.3	Oh, great. I love when that happens. Because I was thinking before you got on, I was like,
1:28.8	all right, what is my banter section with Heather Cox Richardson look like? I was like,
1:32.4	the weather, and then we're both 21 degrees. So that's not really that interesting. I was watching
1:38.5	a stream from a couple days ago that you ran over your mailbox. So I was like, maybe we talked
1:42.6	mailbox. I did indeed run over my mailbox.
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