Hello, my name is David Ransman and this is Talking Politics.

We are one week on from the election of Donald Trump.

I think we've decompressed a little, but to be honest I don't think we've decompressed that

much.

A little bit later in this week's episode I'm going to be talking to Judith Butler, who,

as well as being one of the world's leading feminist philosophers, is also a major public

intellectual, not just in the United States and Europe as well.

And I know a lot of people are going to want to hear her take on the result.

And in particular what she thinks this means for democracy.

Apparently, as a country we have voted through democratic means for a candidate who may

well destroy constitutional democracy as we know it.

And we also talk about what this result and the state of American politics tells us about

gender and rage.

It's worth looking at how many white men are either identified with Trump or are willing

to vote for him, not just with an exhilarated sense of misogyny, but also an exhilarated

sense of racism.

First, I've got Helen Thompson and Aaron Report here with me and we're going to answer a

few of the questions that we got after last week.

We did a Facebook live experiment.

There was a kind of experiment and we got a lot of response from that, including many

people asking us about things they wished we had talked about.

So we're going to pick a few and we're going to try, if not answer them, at least to

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