Bob Kagan
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1,471 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Bob Kagan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Where I am in fundamental agreement with you is that whatever the Trump movement is about, it's not about economics.
I understand that people get upset when their inflation is higher, when inflation is not high.
But that is not why people have come to Trump.
And of course, Trump hasn't even attempted to try to solve their problem anyway, and they don't care.
Right.
They came for the white supremacy, I would say, and in many cases, the male supremacy, because I think that also was why Trump picked up more black and Hispanic votes.
I think they were overwhelmingly male, and it was the whole response to Me Too, etc., etc.
But it is basically, to put a technical term on it, bigotry.
that he was selling and that they were liking.
And as you've said a hundred times, which is true, it was really because his enemies were their enemies.
They knew that he would go after their enemies and do whatever.
One part of which I agree with you was
in some cases, people who were enthusiastic about the idea of political violence.
But the big picture is the one that I think that the Democratic Party has been missing.
Now, I don't like to tell parties what works politically, because usually politicians know better than I do.
But since the Democratic Party is not doing very well anyway, they've been operating on the assumption that this is bread and butter kitchen table issues, when in fact, it is actually about race, religion, etc.
Now, there is a problem in that, which is that
You can't triangulate that.
You know what I mean?
Well, you shouldn't triangulate it.
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