/450/ The World-Soul Rides a Golden Escalator ft. Matt Karp

On Trump's return and the end of the End of History (still!)

Historian and Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp joins us to extract the true meaning of the US election. We discuss:

• How Trump's victory explodes so many Democrat assumptions about demography and identity

• How this election re-writes the past ten years' history

• Whether Trump still retains an anti-political or anti-establishment charge

• If the Democrats are preponderant in leading sectors of the knowledge economy, is this a political rejection of its assumptions?

• How to place this election in the sweep of the global anti-incumbency wave

• What the relationship is between inflation, labour and legitimacy

Links:

• Power Lines, Matt Karp, Harper's

• It’s Happening Again, Matt Karp, Jacobin

• Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbents, John Burn-Murdoch, FT

• /262/ The Useless Past ft. Matt Karp

• /447/ Brunch Back Better ft. Ryan Zickgraf & Amber A'Lee Frost

• /445/ How I Hacked the US Election ft. Alex Gourevitch