Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is the second installment of our noble

experiment, a second weekly shorter dig analyzing the past week's news. It's what some might

call a diglet. Because I said everything. I hit him with neo-Nazi. I hit him with everything I got the white supremacist the neo-Nazi I got them all

in there let's say yeah K K K K K we have K K K K K.

My guest today is Alex Perrine, politics editor at Splinter.

We're going to discuss his recent piece there, entitled,

Charlottesville was a preview of the future of the Republican Party.

Along with other things about the Republican Party and its

leader, Donald Trump.

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Okay, here to the dig.

Hey, thank you for having me. Alex Green, welcome to the dig.

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