A poll about Americans attitudes toward our government came out a few weeks back.

On first read, it's kind of hilarious.

On second read, it's worried.

A majority of American voters writes the New York Times, it was their poll.

Across nearly all demographics and ideologies, believe their system of government does not

work.

Some of them have coalesced into the new right.

They're skeptical of democracy, but want to use government to achieve their ends.

It might be scarier than fascism.

It might be a kind of union of tech billionaires and anti-democrats and people who believe

in sort of human hierarchy, creating an absolute surfdom in dystopia that looks like nothing

we've ever seen before.

Coming up on today explained, is the New Right the future of conservatism or are they

the other F word?

Fascists.

It's today explained, I'm Newell King.

James Pogue is a contributing editor at Harper's, he's a long form writer elsewhere.

He wrote about the New Right in Vanity Fair.

And for that article, he spent a long time hanging out with and around New Right figures,

asking for their vision of the United States, James, how do you define the New Right?

The way I tend to define it and there is no great definition is that it's halfway an attempt

to turn the Republican Party into something more nationalist, more they often use the term

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