Historian DESTROYS Big Myth Of Trump And New Far Right - w/. Quinn Slobodian
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🗓️ 17 May 2025
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Quinn Slobodian's excellent new book Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right is now out.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, the West has been, I would say, in the midst of a number of crises over the last few years, |
| 0:06.0 | one of them being a growing political crisis. |
| 0:08.6 | I mean, in the United States, we see, of course, Trumpism, a far-right movement, |
| 0:13.8 | which has assumed control of the world's only superpower. |
| 0:16.7 | And Trump 2.0 is really rather different from Trump 1.0. The restraints are truly off. |
| 0:25.0 | But across Europe as well, whether it be the AFD in Germany, for example, |
| 0:30.2 | whether we see Marine Le Penz, movements in France, there is the rise of a far right, |
| 0:35.9 | which presents itself as being against the elites, |
| 0:39.4 | often tapping in to the discontent and disillusionment and real grievances people have |
| 0:45.3 | because of the neoliberal economic system, if you like, a economic system which has |
| 0:50.7 | redistributed wealth and power, many of us would argue in favour of elites. |
| 0:55.2 | But are they really rebelling against neoliberalism and that economic system? |
| 1:01.1 | Or they, in many ways, the logical or the next logical stage of that system? |
| 1:08.7 | I'm really, really fascinated to be speaking to this brilliant author, Quinn Swobledon, |
| 1:15.0 | who is the author of Hayek's Bastards, which is just a great title. I just think I have a great |
| 1:20.1 | title for a book, Hyatt's Bastards, Bam, raised gold, IQ and the capitalism of the far right. |
| 1:27.8 | Quinn, great to speak to you. How you did? |
| 1:29.8 | Doing well, yeah. Happy to talk to. |
| 1:32.1 | Congratulations on the new book. Very excited about it. |
| 1:35.2 | I just want to firstly, look, I mean, the book obviously you wrote before Trump 2.0 ascended to the White House. |
| 1:43.1 | Just give a flavor of what you think. |
| 1:46.3 | How are you somewhat this Trumpism? |
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