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One that you might like is The Idealist, Wendell Wilkie's wartime quest to build one world, by Samuel

Zipp. In The Idealist, historian Samuel Zip tells the story of Republican presidential candidate

Wendell Wilkie's 1942 World Tour.

As the threat of fascism swept the world, Wilkie challenged Americans to resist the

original America First Movement, warned of the dangers of narrow nationalism during World War II, and urged

Americans to resist empire and end racial segregation.

At a time when America first is again a rallying cry. Wilkie's

questioning of the liberal world order and his vision for democratic globalism is

indispensable history.

The idealist, Wendell Wilkie's wartime quest to build one world.

By Samuel Zipp, out now from Harvard University Press. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

I had been planning to do this interview with Joe Lounds and Nikil Paul Singh on the state of right-wing politics sometime soon. After last Wednesday, we decided to have the conversation right away.

Both Joe and Nikil have been on the show before and the two, conveniently for you,

represent different tendencies of a left debate over how to think about today's

right wing. This debate is often conducted on Twitter in the form of the question

of whether Trump and Trumpism are fascist. I think that debate often conflates and

confuses various debates. One is over the question of how to define fascism.

Another question is how dangerous Trumpism is and what sort of danger it

poses. And yet a third question is what comprises the social basis for Trumpism,

though they share many points of agreement. the social basis for Trumpism.

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