UNLOCKED: Neocon Tentacles into Populism, the Hudson Institute, the Doomsday Machine & Kahn !!!

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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UNLOCKED Robbie & Abby do a deep dive on the only DC foreign policy think tank that has managed to slide its tentacles into the so-called 'anti establishment' world of the 'populist right. They go back to the origins of the think-tank starting with founder Herman Kahn the inventor of the nuclear war MAD strategy all the way to their most effective salesman, Saagar Enjeti of the The Hill Rising who attended an Israeli counter terrorism school and wrote for Kim Kagan's Institute for the Study of War right out of 4-year college. Note: Saagar Enjeti was no longer officially working for the Hudson Institute by January 2021. This podcast was originally released exclusively to Media Roots Patreon subsribers on May 2021. Intro/Outro - Lawnmower Man SNES OST - Theme If you'd like to hear podcasts like this when they come out instead of waiting for them to be unlocked, consider subscribing to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to an exclusive bonus episode per month. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello, welcome to Media Roots Radio.
0:40.0	This is Robbie Martin.
0:42.0	And today we are delivering to you our long-awaited episode about the Hudson Institute.
0:50.2	Abby's going to join me for the discussion.
0:54.2	So without delaying any further, here we go.
1:00.3	Robbie, it's really important to look at Trumpism, not only as like a retrospective,
1:06.4	but see the lasting effects of Trumpism and this kind of notion of right populism and how it's now
1:13.8	used by the GOP to tap into the population, you know, using this notion of right populism
1:21.4	to try to continue to keep Trumpism alive.
1:25.3	And you're pretty much an expert on like think tanks in general, what think tanks are behind,
1:30.6	what policy, which ones are the ones that we need to be paying attention to most in D.C.
1:35.1	Of course, a very heavy agenda.
1:37.1	Your epic documentary focused in on think tanks, you know, the Kagan family, stuff like that.
1:46.0	You have been doing quite a bit of research on another think tank that is particularly relevant right now because of what we've
1:53.0	been talking about. And that's called the Hudson Institute. Why are you fixated on this
2:00.5	think tank in particular?
2:01.7	Why don't you explain what this think tank is and who's a part of it?
2:06.1	Well, so I think, so the concept of Trumpism, I think we need to like explain it.
2:14.8	When it comes to the Hudson Institute by saying first that it is try to separate
2:20.3	trump from the equation and think of where trumpism and sort of the maga movement sort of evolved from
2:25.7	you could argue it sort of came from the tea party and the tea party was sort of like a co-opted
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