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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third

sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, DC, and from other undisclosed locations

across America and around the world.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio.

I'm your host, David Rothkopf, and we're joined today in Washington by David Sanger

of the New York Times and Ed Luce of the Financial Times and in Palo Alto, California by the

Irrepressible Corey Shachy at Stanford University.

See how irrepressible she is?

It just lifts all our spirits.

Guys, I want to begin in a place that I never thought I'd begin.

But what I'd like to talk about for a little bit is what we see as the philosophical roots

of Trumpism.

Now, I wanted to find it broadly.

What are Trump's philosophical roots beyond those he sees in his own mirror every morning?

What are those of the people around him?

What can we glean from these philosophical roots to predict where we are going?

Corey Shachy.

Well, the Reverend Barkley, for whom the University of California at Berkeley is named, believed

that you could not have knowledge beyond the perception of your own senses.

Right?

So, if you didn't see it here at Smell It, Touch It Tasted, you couldn't know that something

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