The Trumposcene Era with Dartmouth Professor Jeff Sharlet

The Home Front

Reed Galen

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today, Host Reed Galen and Jeff Sharlet discuss the current state of American politics a decade into the Trump-a-scene era. They explore the consolidation of Trumpism, the challenges of political engagement, and the importance of community building in the face of rising political violence and disillusionment. The discussion emphasizes the need for local action and resilience in democracy, contrasting the right's effective community organizing with the left's struggles to mobilize and engage. To get involved, go to JoinTheUnion.us to attend a local community meet up. Read Jeff's book, A Slow Civil War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	Welcome back to the home front.
0:32.0	I'm your host.
0:33.1	Today, I'm joined by Jeff Charlotte.
0:35.0	He is a professor at Dartmouth University and the author of
0:38.8	The Undertoe, Scenes from a Slow Civil War. It is an incredible book, guys. I hope you check it out.
0:44.4	Jeff, welcome back. Hi, Reed. Good to be with you again. Okay, so, Jeff, the reason I asked you to
0:50.1	come on today is because we are now 10 years into what you wrote in your book is called
0:56.3	the Trumpocene era. Now, I know you didn't come up with that phrase, but I thought you were
1:01.6	an appropriate person to talk to given the fact that not only have you traveled the country,
1:08.4	studied things like, you know, the religious right, that you have a
1:12.4	more thoughtful and maybe, you know, your purge allows you to observe these things maybe with a
1:17.5	little less intensity than maybe somebody like me who's in it all the time. So give us a sense
1:22.5	here a decade in. Where are we? I think we're in a holding pattern right now to be honest um uh it's even we're
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