The Long Lineage of Trump’s Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Jeet Heer)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:28 Jeet’s plans for Canadian resistance 3:30 Trump 2.0: Making “autarkic imperialism” great again? 12:01 The hidden logic of Trump’s tariffs 20:19 The historical roots of Trumpism 34:56 How Trump won the GOP civil war 43:36 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Jeet Heer (The Nation). Recorded March 18, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:29.3	Hello, G.
0:31.1	Hello, Bob.
0:32.2	Are you doing?
0:33.9	Not bad.
0:35.6	Trying to figure out what I should do when your country invades me, because I'm up here in Canada.
0:41.0	I can give you guidance.
0:42.1	I can give you guidance on that.
0:44.5	For a fee, for a fee, I could probably give you shelter.
0:47.7	But, but...
0:50.3	Well, historically, Canada has actually done pretty well in terms of American invasions.
0:55.5	I guess the big question is, should we have our army prepare or should we go to Baptist's route and have a wide dispersion of arms for a guerrilla insurgency?
1:06.7	Oh, gee, that's a tough one.
1:10.1	I think I would just wait.
1:12.8	I would lure us in and then do the emergency thing, I think.
1:16.4	Yeah, that would be the most devastating.
1:18.7	Let me introduce this quickly.
1:19.9	I'm Robert Wright, publisher, Nanzio Newsletter.
1:21.8	This is a Nanzer podcast.
1:22.9	You are G here, a national correspondent at the nation.
1:26.9	Before that, you were staff writer's New Republic.
1:30.9	So you have been at both of America's, I guess, most venerable left of center. Both of them
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