Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

I should point out a lot of these far-right European parties

traditionally have been very, very anti-Semitic, but in recent years, they have reconfigured themselves as super pro-Israel.

I mean, Musk has interfered a lot in German politics.

For sure.

AFD rallies, just like he spoke at Tommy Robinson rallies.

Peter Thiel is a deeply disturbing figure, also former PayPal ally of Elon Musk, part of the quote-unquote PayPal mafia in Silicon Valley.

Thiel spoke at Donald Trump's first Republican convention in 2016, a gay right-wing tech boss who is very Christian.

It's

talks about the Antichrist all the time, thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist, just to get a sense of how nutty Peter Thiel is.

Had dinner with lots of white supremacists that came out a few years ago.

Wrote an essay about 15 years ago saying, I've come to the conclusion that freedom is incompatible with democracy.

He's a libertarian.

He's one of these guys who wants to build a colony on Mars or in the middle of the ocean where there's no government and no regulation.

And these are the guys, unfortunately, running a lot of our politics on both sides of the Atlantic.

worryingly?

And again, to go back to my point earlier, we can't talk about this stuff in a vacuum.

When you read out that quote where he's going after Muslims and he's obsessed with Islam and Islamism and Muslim immigration, again, that is a mainstream issue.

Mainstream politicians have entertained and promoted that idea as well, have said Islamophobic things, both Democrats and people in the Labour Party.

And I think that's one of the reasons why a lot of us, not just for moral reasons, do you have to stand up to bigotry.

but also for political reasons, because all you're doing is you're helping the Overton window move further and further to the right.

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