Rod Dreher

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Interesting Times · Preparing for ‘Weimar America’ · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And at some point, the people who actually vote and whose money supports universities through federal funding, don't they get a say?

I mean, how does one respond to that?

That has occurred to me.

The reason Orban lost was primarily because the economy was stagnant for the last four years after COVID.

And so when people weren't making money, people were a lot richer under Orban, the ordinary Hungarian, than they were under the socialist predecessor.

But when that gravy train stopped, suddenly people started looking around like, wait, why am I struggling to pay my bills when the nepo babies of oligarchs are driving around in Maseratis?

And that came back to bite them.

And I think it's going to happen in America too.

I've been back in the U.S.

for almost a month now.

Ross, it has blown my mind how expensive the cost of living is.

I moved to Birmingham, Alabama, which is deep Trumplandia, right?

All people talk about is how expensive life is.

I was talking with an American friend last night here at the conference who also lives in a very conservative part of the country that went heavily for Trump.

He said they're starting to see now signs pop up on people's lawns saying, this was not my idea of America first.

What about...

I'm worried about Weimar America.

That's the title of the next book I'm working on.

And the first thing people say when they hear that is, oh, is this a Trumpist Hitler book?

No, Trump barely figures in this book.

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