Are We Going to Be Ok?
Inside the Hive
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this post-election episode, host Brian Stelter checks in with Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Radhika Jones and contributing editor Jeff Sharlet, getting their gut-level reactions to Donald Trump’s triumph and perspective on the evolving MAGA movement, which now include the likes of Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They discuss the language of fascism, male identity politics, and the need to cut through the Trumpian noise to uncover what’s really happening in a second term at a national and local level.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Radica Jones, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.3 | If you love digging into the week's political headlines, subscribe to Vanity Fair. |
| 0:10.7 | Our reporters take you behind the scenes of some of the biggest stories from the campaign trail to the halls of Congress. |
| 0:17.2 | Just for our Inside the Hive listeners, save 15% on a yearly digital subscription to Vanity Fair with promo code Pod 15. |
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| 0:38.9 | While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. |
| 0:51.6 | Radica, we're here taping just a few minutes after Vice President Harris officially conceded the race. |
| 0:58.1 | Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States. |
| 1:01.2 | What are you thinking? |
| 1:02.1 | What are you feeling on a gut level right now? |
| 1:04.5 | On a gut level, it's still very fresh. |
| 1:07.6 | It's been 24 hours of really very, very swiftly shifting expectations, but obviously |
| 1:16.0 | a very clear outcome. It's definitely been a lot to process. You know, we were prepared, for example, |
| 1:22.3 | to not have a call on the electoral college for a few days. We were prepared for a different outcome on the popular vote. |
| 1:31.1 | When you're editing a publication and you're planning for an event like this, |
| 1:35.6 | one of the things that happens is you're doing a lot of prewriting |
| 1:38.2 | and you're doing a lot of thinking about all those potential scenarios. |
| 1:42.5 | And in your imagination, you have to kind of inhabit all |
| 1:45.5 | of them. And so when the thing actually happens, it takes a beat to kind of land in real space and |
| 1:53.6 | time and start to confront what this means for the country. That is Radica Jones, editor of |
| 2:00.4 | Vanity Fair. And I'm Brian Seltter. Welcome to the special |
| 2:03.8 | edition of Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair, where we're going to try to make sense of what's |
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