Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

This is the second installment of our noble experiment, a second weekly, shorter dig analyzing the past week's news.

It's what some might call a diglet.

Because I said everything. I hit him with neo-Nazi. I hit them with everything.

I got the white supremacists, the neo-Nazi. I got them all in there, let's say.

KKK, we have KKK.

My guest today is Alex Perrine, politics editor at Splinter.

We're going to discuss his recent piece there entitled

Charlottesville was a preview of the future of the Republican Party,

along with other things about the Republican Party and its

leader, Donald Trump. Before we get started, I want to thank the dozens of people who signed up to

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Hey, thank you for having me.

So on Wednesday night, Trump went to his happy place, Phoenix, Arizona, and was met with

large protests.

He suggested he would pardon anti-immigrant sheriff

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