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haymarketbooks. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. Today's episode is my interview with Matt

Christman of Chapo Trap House. Many of you are probably Chapo listeners and fans. Many others of

you I'm sure are not, and perhaps only no Chapo by reputation. Whether or not you listen,

this interview puts Matt's thinking into the digs, extensive, and exhaustive format.

The result is a broad and comprehensive analysis of how American history brought us to this

awful present from one of the sharpest and most entertaining fingers around. Matt and I cover a

lot from the defeat of reconstruction through the New Deal to how America's settler colonial promise

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