Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States.

We will, of course, be following the moves of the Donald's

and his second administration very closely.

However, it won't just be politics for us this year.

We'll also talk a lot and cover American culture, life and the arts.

I should also remind you, because my producer, Natasha,

will not let me hear the end of it, that we are on Spectator TV. So head to our YouTube channel

to watch that. Hello and welcome to the Americano show here from Washington, D.C., the spectator's

lovely new office here in Washington, D.C. the spectator's lovely new office here in Washington, D.C.

I'm delighted to be joined by our columnist and the editor of Modern Age, Daniel McCarthy, Dan McCarthy.

Dan's great to be with you. Great to see you in the flesh.

Thank you, Fred. That's a delight to join you here in the offices.

We used to work in an office in Washington together.

We did indeed.

We were both on staff at a magazine called the American Conservative back in the 2000s.

And so, but this is, we're now in the offices of unheard and the Spectator, which have a

cohabitation agreement in Washington, D.C.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Well put.

So I thought I'd start by talking to you about the subject of your latest contribution

to spectator, which we've given the un-American revolution, is the headline we put on it.

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