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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Will Trump Go Full-On Authoritarian? (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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0:28 Another high-synergy, brilliant collaboration 1:39 Is Elon our first true oligarch? 10:21 Trump assembles his Justice League of hawks 16:53 Biden’s awful foreign policy team 21:49 Trump’s plan to purge the military 33:30 Will Trump go full-on authoritarian? 40:45 Left-wing capitalists—and a discount offer

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded November 14, 2024.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.

0:27.5

Well, it looks like it's Danny Bessner and Derek Davison of the American Prestige Podcast,

0:35.2

and I'm Robert Wright, which can mean only one thing.

0:37.4

It's another

0:37.7

high synergy collaborative episode of two podcasts two two brilliant podcasts uh who are who are catching

0:48.6

all of the all of the subscribers who are leaving the left liberal podcast sphere as has been tweeted out recently. Yeah. That's kind of interesting, actually. That's discredited, right? And they're all heading our way. By the way, where do I fit on that spectrum? I mean, you guys are obviously like far left, you know, radicals. But what am I? Only in the American context, Bob. I'm a progressive realist. I forgot. You're a Sigma.

1:11.8

Do you know what a Sigma is?

1:12.9

I'm sure you know what an alpha is. A Sigma is someone who is so alpha that they are effectively outside of the system. And I think that's pop right. That sounds like me. I had not heard the term, but it just feels so natural for me to wear it. You should get like a Sigma branded non-zero merchandise.

1:10.5

I think that would do really well.

1:12.0

Totally.

1:12.3

Totally. for me to wear it. You should get like a Sigma branded non-zero merchandise.

1:28.6

I think that would do really well.

1:30.1

Totally.

1:31.6

You guys are my inspiration, as always, in this, in marketing as in other things.

1:36.9

So you guys having a good time?

1:39.7

The first week of the Trump administration has been eventful, I would say.

1:44.9

Yeah, at least in terms of appointments.

1:46.7

It's very similar to what he did last time.

1:49.1

Yeah, you know, a lot of weird appointments at first.

1:51.8

And then the question is, how long will they last?

1:54.3

Michael Flynn, I think, was the shortest serving National Security Advisor in history, something like 21 days.

2:00.0

Yeah, something like that.

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