Trump Won. What's Next?
The Reason Roundtable
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman react to last week's presidential election and forecast what might come next.
01:55—"Big picture" election reaction
27:02—"Little picture" election reaction
38:27—Weekly listener question
48:58—Trump's ideas on anti-censorship
52:59—This week's cultural recommendations
Mentioned in this podcast:
"Patrick Ruffini: Why Did Trump Win?" by Zach Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe
"Live on Election Night with Nick Gillespie!" by Nick Gillespie, Coleman Hughes, Kmele Foster, Peter Meijer, Allison Schrager, and Peter Suderman
"A Red-District Conqueror Wants Fellow Democrats to Look in the Mirror" by Annie Karni
"How Trump Won in Maps and Charts" by Financial Times
"How the GOP Became a (More) Multicultural Party" by Jesse Walker
"Was 2024 the Gender Gap Election?" by Emma Camp
"What, If Anything, Will Democrats Learn From This Election?" by Joe Lancaster
"Throw the Bums Out" by Eric Boehm
"Did Trump Run an Actually Good Campaign?" by Liz Wolfe
"Donald Trump Won Because Kamala Harris Is Joe Biden but Worse" by Robby Soave
"Voters Didn't Reject Women, They Rejected Kamala Harris" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown
"How Donald Trump and Elon Musk Could Cut $2 Trillion in Government Spending" by Veronique de Rugy
"Want To Lower the Political Temperature? Make the Presidency Less Important" by C.J. Ciaramella
"How Much Will Trump's Tariffs Cost?" by Eric Boehm
"Study: Mass Deportation Could Put 28 Million People at Risk of Family Separation" by Kevin Garcia-Galindo
"Most People Support School Choice. Why Won't They Vote For It?" by Emma Camp
"This Week's Election Results Are a Discouraging Sign for Drug Policy Reformers" by Jacob Sullum
"California's Rent Control Initiative Goes Down in Flames" by Christian Britschgi
"The Classic Neocons Are Out, but They Might Still Get What They Want" by Matthew Petti
"Trump Has Many Grudges. Now He Has a Chance To Act on Them." by Jacob Sullum
"Will Trump Make Good on His Campaign Promises?" Spectator Americano podcast with Nick Gillespie
"Why Trump Won" Spiked Online's post-election podcast with Nick Gillespie
"St. Martha: Why Martha Stewart should go to heaven and the SEC should go to hell" by Michael McMenamin
"It's Too Bad We Can't Fire More Governors" by Matt Welch
"Sean Baker's Anora Is a Riotous Celebration of Working-Class Life" by Peter Suderman
"If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country." by @realDonaldTrump
"One thing you have to say about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr…is that he doesn't miss a beat when he says I will legalize psychedelics" by Nick Gillespie
"Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of very few Democrats who won in a heavily red district."
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Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve
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