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How MAGA Went Mainstream - Joshua Citarella meets Richard Hames
In 2016, the alt-right seemed to come from the internet and infest politics. In 2024, the internet and politics have become identical. Are we swimming in the world the alt-right built for us?
Perhaps no one knows the world of online politics better than Joshua Citarella an artist and political theorist whose 2018 book Politigram and the Post-Left kickstarted a flurry of investigations into new political cultures. His Doomscroll (https://www.youtube.com/@doomscrollpodcast ) looks at the development of online politics now.
As the results of the US election were still coming in, he spoke to Richard Hames about the disasters of vibes-based liberal politics, how the Trump campaign spoke to a bloodlust in the American people, and where the American left goes from here.