3min chapter

The Deprogram cover image

Episode 84 - Hell On Cush Earth (Ft. Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House)

The Deprogram

CHAPTER

The Subclass of American Suburbania

The people in the suburbs are afraid of literally everything terrified of cities, they're terrified of people who aren't from around there. They're terrified of not having a grocery store nearby or their particular kind of grocery store nearby. It is the last vestige of the frontier yum and fantasy of self-sufficiency even though there's no self- Sufficiency to speak of. That brings with it a sense of proprietary control, rigid policing of borders and property value because that is what we've that's the buy-in to the system that we have offered. Trump's real base are people who are either not necessarily downwardly mobile but subjectively imagine themselves to be in danger of downward mobility

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode