Donald Trump Returns. What Now?

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Washington roundtable is joined by David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, to discuss how Donald Trump, a convicted felon and sexual abuser, won both the Electoral College and the popular vote—a first for a Republican President since 2004. Democrats lost almost every swing state, even as abortion-rights ballot measures found favor in some conservative states. On this crossover episode with The New Yorker Radio Hour, they discuss Kamala Harris’s campaign, Trump’s overtly authoritarian rhetoric, and the American electorate’s rightward trajectory.

This week’s reading:

“Donald Trump’s Revenge,” by Susan B. Glasser
“2016 and 2024,” by Jelani Cobb
“How Donald Trump, the Leader of White Grievance, Gained Among Hispanic Voters,” by Kelefa Sanneh
“The Reckoning of the Democratic Party,” by Jay Caspian Kang
“How America Embraced Gender War,” by Jia Tolentino
“Donald Trump’s Second Term Is Joe Biden’s Real Legacy,” by Isaac Chotiner

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0:00.0	The only good thing about this election being over is none of you have to get phone calls for me at 7 o'clock in the morning.
0:06.8	What's going on?
0:07.7	What do you know?
0:08.8	I thought of one other thing.
0:10.7	Okay.
0:11.3	Desperately looking for silver linings.
0:13.3	Yeah.
0:13.7	We'll take it.
0:14.6	We don't have to go for the pussy bow.
0:17.4	Yeah.
0:18.3	I don't have to wear that thing again.
0:21.1	That's a fantastic silver lining. Yeah. I don't have to wear that thing again. That's a fantastic silver lining.
0:23.0	Okay.
0:23.6	Authoritarianism in America, but no pussy bow.
0:26.1	Just letting you know.
0:31.2	Well, welcome to the political scene.
0:33.0	I'm David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker.
0:35.7	And today I'm joining my colleague Susan Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos to discuss, guess what, the return of Donald Trump to the White House and what it means for America. So, hi, all.
0:47.8	Hi, David.
0:49.3	Hey, there. You guys sound great. You sound like you're a little super up there in New York City.
0:54.1	You're kind of chipper, yeah.
0:55.5	It's called caffeine, my friends.
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