Donald Trump Is a Symptom, Right?

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Donald Trump used the presidency as a platform for his own personal cult of personality. He's done lasting and permanent damage, not just to our institutions in the country, but also conservatism because conservatism is now being redefined into right-wing populism which is antithetical to actually being a conservative. And so he's also a symptom of the loss of trust in institutions, but he's also made everything on that front worse too.

Sam Harris speaks with Jonah Goldberg about the state of American politics and civil society. They discuss the hyperpartisanship of the Left and Right, what Trump has done to the Republican party, the breakdown of trust in institutions, the “new catastrophism” enabled by social media, the problem of populism, and other topics.

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