Are We Living in a Different America?

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In the last few months of his campaign, Trump was free and open with his dictatorial impulses, as he talked about punishing “enemies from within.” Now that he’s won, have we crossed the line into a different kind of country? Staff writers Anne Applebaum and McKay Coppins help us learn how to find the line. Does this resounding win mean the electorate gave Trump a mandate to act on all his impulses? Will he make good on his campaign threats? And how will we know? If you'd like to participate in our listener survey, visit TheAtlantic.com/survey. And get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Radio Atlantic. I'm Hunter Rosen. So Donald Trump won. It's looking like he won every swing state. And also, like, there was a rightward shift even in the states he lost. He won even though in the last months of his campaign, he was at his darkest and most crude.
0:22.0	None of that mattered, apparently.
0:24.2	So here to help us understand what happened are two Atlantic staff writers, Anne Applebaum, who covers threats to democracy.
0:31.4	Hi, Ann.
0:32.0	Hello.
0:32.6	And political reporter McKay Cobbens.
0:34.4	Hi, McKay.
0:35.1	Hey.
0:35.3	So, McKay, what do we know about how he won? The particular
0:41.1	coalition, the demographics, what do we know so far? Well, you just got at it. I mean, I think that
0:47.5	the most surprising thing is not that he won, because the polls were so tight and everyone was
0:52.7	warning us to kind of be prepared for either
0:54.7	candidate coming out victorious. But the fact that he won so decisively making gains in almost
1:02.8	every state and almost every demographic group is something that I think most people were not
1:07.6	prepared for, just to run through a few of the highlights.
1:11.7	He made major gains with Latino voters, according to exit polls.
1:16.6	It depends on which exep poll you're looking at, but Harris won Latinos by between 8 and 15 points.
1:23.5	That is a lot less than Biden's roughly 30-point win among Latino voters four years ago.
1:29.6	He made some more modest gains with black voters, especially young black men.
1:34.2	A lot of Trump's gains were concentrated with men.
1:38.3	One ex-poll showed him narrowly winning Latino men.
1:41.7	The other one showed him narrowly losing them.
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