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The Dig: Trump's Reactionary Mind with Corey Robin

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🗓️ 25 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Corey Robin points to a tension that has defined conservatism from the get-go, between two competing conceptions of virtue and nobility: one defined by political and military distinction and another by entrepreneurial acumen and accumulated wealth. Robin parses how Trump fits into this dynamic history, in part by taking a look back to seminal conservative thinkers like Edmund Burke and Friedrich Hayek. Support us with $ at patreon.com/TheDig Listen to Dan's first interview with Corey: blubrry.com/thedig/22226639/corey-robin-on-the-reactionaries-minds-under-trump/

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0:00.0

This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters on Patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

0:12.0

One that you might like is out of the wreckage, a new

0:16.1

politics for an age of crisis by George Monbia. A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism dominates our world.

0:26.4

It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose.

0:31.4

Only a positive vision can replace it. A new story that

0:37.2

re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better future.

0:43.0

George Monbia shows how new findings in psychology,

0:47.6

neuroscience, and evolutionary biology

0:50.8

cast human nature in a radically different light as supremely altruistic and

0:56.2

cooperative. He shows how we can build on these findings to create a new

1:02.4

politics of belonging. Both democracy and economic life

1:07.0

can be radically reorganized from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our

1:16.2

ambitions for a better society. Out of the wreckage, a new politics for an age of

1:21.9

crisis by George Monbia. Out now. A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

1:23.0

By George Monbia.

1:24.2

Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and

1:41.1

I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

1:44.8

Embarrassed members of the Conservative intelligentsia have long been dismayed by Donald Trump.

1:50.8

He's crude, he's violent, he's garish, has little interest in any contest of ideas, and failed to sufficiently

1:58.4

court the hawkish foreign policy establishment.

2:03.0

Liberals often feel the same way.

2:06.1

But as my guest Cori Robin, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the

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