#493
Zack Beauchamp, Vox Senior Correspondent and author of The Reactionary Spirit: How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World, joins The Realignment. Zack and Marshall discuss the American origins of the reactionary backlash against liberal democracy, the difference between conservatism and reactionary thought, and the case studies of Hungary, Israel, and India.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:45 - ‘Democracy’ discourse
6:52 - Broad democratic principles
10:55 - Semi-private nature of US elections
14:50 - Trump ban from twitter
17:15 - Campaign finance
23:37 - Primaries
28:53 - Political parties in other countries
32:37 - Shift in politics since 2000’s
40:50 - Reactionary right
46:12 - Compromising with the right
49:57 - Trump’s trials
54:15 - Zack’s book