The State of the American Right (w/ Daniel Denvir)
Matt and Sam are interviewed by Daniel Denvir of The Dig — a Jacobin magazine podcast — about the state of the American Right.
Duration
2h 24m
Broadcast on
21 Jun 2022
Audio Format
other
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Today we're sharing a special "Dig Your Enemy" crossover event, as Daniel Denvir of Jacobin magazine's The Dig podcast puts Matt and Sam in the hot seat. We answer all of Dan's excellent questions about the state of the American right, including: the return of isolationism, the New Right, Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Blake Masters, Doug Mastriano, the prospects for a multi-racial conservative majority, the "groomer" panic, masculinity and gender politics, MAGA, authoritarianism, NYC's new reactionary "downtown scene," and the bad dialectic between racial liberalism and the anti-woke reactionaries. Enjoy!
This episode was originally posted by The Dig; find the rest of their excellent podcasts here: https://thedigradio.com/
- Welcome listeners to a special extra episode of Know Your Enemy. I'm your co-host, Sam Adler-Bell, and I'm here with my fantastic friend, Matthew Symp. (laughing) - Hey, Sam, how are you? - Well, I was gonna say, how you doing, Matt? - I'm doing great this morning, and I'm really excited to share this episode of the dig with our listeners. - A real barn burner. - It is, it is. Maybe a lot of the listeners have already listened to it on the dig, in which case this is the same episode, but I suspect some of our listeners are not already listeners to the great Jackman magazine podcast, The Dig, hosted by the brilliant, I think of him as, like the communist Ira Glass, Dan Denver. (laughing) - Yes, and when we record with Dan, it's always like a three hour affair. By the end of it, your voice is hoarse and your eyes are bleary, but that's the fun of it. - Yeah, you convince yourself that it's really, really maybe all over, but this is a great episode of his podcast, and he's basically just interviewing the two of us about everything that's going on on the right today. We did another episode of The Dig with Dan about a year ago, where we talked more about the history of conservatism, but this time it was all about sort of just surveying the landscape of the American right, and I think it's actually, we covered a lot of ground that's not been covered on episodes of Know Your Enemy, and that's why we were so eager to share it with you here. - Because it's rare for us to be the ones interviewed. - Yeah, so I think we are a little more expansive than sometimes we even are able to be on the podcast, depending on the episode. - That's right, so we'll just get to it. We don't even need to do housekeeping. Enjoy this little extra episode, mid-summer treat for you. - Yes, and thanks again to Dan Denver and everyone at The Dig. We had a great time. - Yeah, we did. - All right, enjoy.
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Matt and Sam are interviewed by Daniel Denvir of The Dig — a Jacobin magazine podcast — about the state of the American Right.
