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Ep. 007: The Geopolitics of Illiberalism | Peter Zeihan

The Dissidents

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The Political Reshuffling of the United States

What's happening right now is that we're going through one of our once every generation or two political reshufflings where the factions themselves are moving around and jumping ship. The last time we did this in the 1940s, we were vulnerable to propaganda from the Germans. Now these transitions usually take about a decade and we're coming up on a decade fairly soon. This started when Hillary Clinton was running for president. So we probably have one more presidential election and when we get to the backside of that, we will have a new party structure that's a little bit more congealed,. And that will give the Russians and other groups looking to launch propaganda efforts in the United States.

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