Episode 56: Leonard Cohen’s Last Days and Donald Trump’s First Term
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From 38. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm excited to be having a conversation with someone. |
| 0:09.0 | When they have that revelation, |
| 0:11.0 | like the air of the priest, it's making sure. |
| 0:14.0 | That maybe looking at this case, it could be an interesting process. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay. |
| 0:19.0 | From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production |
| 0:24.6 | of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Well, here we are. And if you're like me, |
| 0:35.5 | you were profoundly shocked by the results on Tuesday night. Although |
| 0:39.1 | maybe we shouldn't have been, Donald Trump clearly tapped into a range of currents, a struggling |
| 0:44.4 | middle class with its sense of deep disconnection, the racial and ethnic divides in the country, |
| 0:51.5 | and a collapsed media structure that has caused us to live in our own silos |
| 0:56.0 | of reality. And if Donald Trump's presidency is anything like his campaign with its sense of |
| 1:01.8 | insult and wild improvisation, our country is in totally uncharted and dangerous waters. |
| 1:10.2 | To get a sense of where we're headed, I sat down with George Packer and Amy Davidson, |
| 1:14.8 | two staff writers at The New Yorker who have been writing about the campaign from the very start |
| 1:19.4 | and the bombshell results. |
| 1:22.8 | George, reporting for both the New Yorker and your book, The Unwinding, you spent a lot of time in what we now think of as Trump country, in the South, in the deindustrialized Midwest. |
| 1:36.7 | The press is often accused of not understanding the Trump voter, of it being disconnected from the Trump voter. |
| 1:43.9 | Please tell us what we missed. |
| 1:46.7 | I think there's no single Trump voter. |
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