Hello, I'm Rory Stewart, and I'd like to tell you about an intelligent squared event

I'm doing with the classicist author and broadcaster Mary Beard. Together we'll be discussing

politics and power from the Caesars to Sunack, who gets to Winpar, who is excluded,

does power always corrupt, or other examples of leaders who've maintained their integrity while

an authority. And how does the nature of power vary across different times and cultures?

These are just some of the questions that Mary and I will be trying to answer.

In person tickets are now sold out, but you can still watch online on the 13th of November

at 7pm BST. Put your questions first live as we discuss power and politics down the edges.

Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this week's episode of Intelligent Squared.

Today we're joined by James Fletcher, director of the new documentary The Accidental President.

And in conversation with Mark Mardel, they explored the very seeds of how Trumpism

emerged as the prevailing ideology in the Republican Party and how Donald Trump came to not

only win the election in 2016, but consume and transform what it meant to be a Republican.

It's a really fascinating conversation about how the documentary was made and all the contributors

who took part. And if you do enjoy it, the accidental president is available on Apple TV,

Amazon, iTunes and YouTube. Now we're going to play you a quick clip from the documentary

and go to the episode. It was a perfect storm, really.

From the very beginning, I think most people did see him as a joke.

This is a TV star who knew how to blow up the media intelligence.

He was the first smash-mouthed, shock-jock candidate by a lot of Americans like this stuff.

He had a residence with transcended logic. It was emotional. He just said whatever came to his mind.

Crew, hypocritical, dishonest. That's already baked into your understanding of who he is.

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