The minds behind MAGA

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Vox's Andrew Prokop and Zack Beauchamp explain the right-wing thinkers whose ideas could dominate Trump's next term. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Stephen Miller, senior advisor to Donald Trump, speaks at a rally in Colorado. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In his first term, President Donald Trump was surrounded by a lot of Republican normies.
0:06.7	Your Mike Pence's, your John Kelly's, your Jim Mattises.
0:10.2	It didn't go great for them, many of them quit. In 2024, a few are back.
0:14.8	I trust a ruthless dictator will empty his prisons and send their criminals to our country.
0:19.9	But there's also a whole new crew of influencers,
0:22.8	and they've got some deeply non-Normy ideas.
0:25.9	He had an Aryan wife, which I recommend to everyone.
0:28.6	This expression, people of color, sounds like it doesn't mean anything. It sounds kind of color. It sounds like it doesn't mean anything.
0:34.0	It sounds kind of like the, you know, racial epithets people used to use in the 1960s, okay?
0:40.0	Men spit and they cuss and they tell dirty jokes and they read porn and they
0:47.6	drink beer these are things that women don't do.
0:51.8	Coming up on today explained the thinkers women don't do.
0:52.7	Coming up on today explained, the thinkers who would inform Donald Trump's second term.
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