Has American politics been taken over by conspiracy theories?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Two days after former president Donald Trump claimed immigrants are eating cats and dogs, and babies are being executed after birth, Jon and Lewis discuss how deep-rooted conspiracy theories have become in American politics.
They're joined in the studio by Gabriel Gatehouse, whose book 'The Coming Storm' delves deep into the world of conspiracy, to find out just how much it is dominating American political discourse.
So why is America so pre-disposed to conspiracy? How will it affect the election? And just how much is it tearing American society apart?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | In Tuesday night's debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, we all remember the eye-popping, |
| 0:19.0 | jaw-dropping bits, the cats and dogs being eaten by illegal |
| 0:23.8 | immigrants, the babies being executed. |
| 0:27.8 | Outlandish? Yeah. Unusual, extraordinary, bizarre. Actually, par for the course from Donald Trump, who has been a one-man conspiracy machine at times. |
| 0:44.0 | The politics of conspiracy has always been central to Donald Trump, it's always been central to MAGA. |
| 0:50.7 | It's always been there in American politics in one form or another, but in recent years |
| 0:56.4 | it has been getting worse and has been taking more and more people in. Why is that? What makes |
| 1:04.1 | America such a centrifuge of conspiracy? And why does it threaten to envelop our politics as well? Welcome to the news |
| 1:13.2 | agents. The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis. And it is extraordinary that when you go to |
| 1:22.5 | America, you just feel that suspicion is the watchword of everyone. They don't believe what they're seeing. Things |
| 1:29.6 | that are obviously in front of your eyes. You think there must be some darker purpose to it. |
| 1:35.2 | And the conspiracy theory has guided so much of American politics and is playing such a role |
| 1:41.4 | in this election as well, where on the Trumpian MAGA right in American politics, |
| 1:50.0 | you think that this is about a deep state |
| 1:53.8 | that is trying to subvert and destroy the American people. |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah, and it's always been there, but it does feel, we reported |
| 2:03.2 | when we were at the DNC in Chicago, went into Indiana, it does feel as if the politics of |
| 2:08.7 | conspiracy is now not just around and there, just under the surface, but it's there for all |
| 2:14.1 | to see. And what it is doing is creating completely separate political realities for different |
| 2:19.9 | groups of people. |
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