Welcome to The Dig. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Donald Trump's election was shocking, if actually not so surprising. It's prompted widespread protests against a cresting right-wing reaction that's taking shape as a contradictory and potent combination

of white nationalism, make-believe economic populism, libertarian orthodoxy,

America First isolationism, and war on terror extremism.

It has also prompted me to relaunch this podcast.

Today, we'll be discussing why Trump won and what that says about the political moment

in the United States.

My guests are Stephanie Kuntz, Khalil Gibran Mohammed, and Matt Karp.

Stephanie teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College.

She's the author of books, including A Strange Sturing, The Feminine Mystique and American

Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, and The Way We Never Were, American Families and the

Nostalgia Trap.

Khalil is professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard, and the author of The

Condemnation of Blackness, Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America.

Matt is an historian at Princeton University, contributing editor at Jacobin, and the author

of This Vast Southern Empire, Slaveholders at the helm of American Foreign Policy.

We spoke just before Thanksgiving, as the nightmarish contours of the coming Trump administration

were beginning to become clear.

I'd also like to apologize for some of the crappy quality of the audio.

We have some technical difficulties this time that we have figured out for future episodes.

Thank you. time that we have figured out for future episodes. There is obviously a lot of blame to go around for Trump's election, including a

Republican Party that long fan the flames of racism and xenophobia, a Democratic establishment

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