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The Audio Long Read

From the archive: The dark history of Donald Trump’s rightwing revolt

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2016: The Republican intellectual establishment is united against Trump – but his message of cultural and racial resentment has deep roots in the American right. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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Hi everyone, my name is Timothy Schenk.

0:50.1

I'm a historian at George Washington University and co-editor of descent.

0:54.4

In the summer of 2016, I wrote an article called The Dark History of Donald Trump's right-wing

0:59.2

revolt. A grud of a total happenstance discovery on my part, which was what was at the time

1:05.6

an anonymous group blog called the Journal of American Greatness that was started by a group of

1:10.5

basically self-described Trump supporting intellectuals, which back in the summer of 2016 sounded

1:15.8

like a just insane proposition. At Curiosity, I poked around in the blog and I found some arguments

1:21.1

that were a lot more interesting than I'd anticipated and a lot more serious than I'd anticipated

1:25.4

to. Tracing the lineage of those arguments set me down this really fascinating rabbit hole

1:31.6

into 20th century history more broadly and a few months later, I emerged with a 5,000-word

1:37.8

piece for the Guardian on all of this. One thing that accursed me looking back on it is that

1:43.4

the piece has kind of aged terrifyingly well, much better than many of my other pieces from

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