David Remnick

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199 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Aug

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On the Media · The Rest Is History · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm not saying that nativism will disappear or the corruption or any of these other aspects you've rightly pointed to.

I get the anxiety, but Trump is Trump.

And his popularity ratings are now in the 30s.

And there's an election coming and he's about to suffer, one believes and maybe hopes, a defeat in the midterms and an expiration date in 2028.

So the argument is, well, maybe this is, if not a one-off, it certainly represents tendencies in American politics, just as racism and anti-Semitism represent persistent tendencies, not only in the United States, but elsewhere.

that those are not going to go away.

But it's possible that through electoral politics, they become submerged.

But there's also something called liberalism.

There absolutely is.

Do you think that's been eradicated from American political culture?

As Nancy Pelosi always reminded us, yes.

But hang on, is it not an anxiety in Britain as well?

You have a current of populism that's running very strong now.

You have a very relatively wealthy London and it's said that the rest of the economy in Britain more resembles Alabama than New York.

So these resentments, these changes in the media, again, it's not on the same scale as the United States and sheer population and military power, but do you not have the same anxieties about, call it Trumpism, if you will, or Farageism or what?

Gentlemen, I can't be sitting here with two British historians and not ask about the state of...

Well, the monarchy.

Is it just about done, or are you just having a low period in the history of the monarchy in many ways, and it will revive itself?

I didn't ask about constitutional monarchy as systemic, but the royal family seems in a state of struggle.

This is a feature.

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