On Trumpworld: Vance in Munich; Musk in South Africa.

[This contains only the interview on South Africa – for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]

Alex, George and Ryan Zickgraf round up events in Germany: first the elections, then US Vice-President JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference where he called out Western elites' hypocrisy on liberalism and democracy.

Then Alex speaks to Will Shoki, editor at Africa Is A Country, about what Musk wants from South Africa, why the global radical right has fixated on land reform in South Africa, and what is really at stake for South Africans.

We round out by taking your questions and comments – and by welcoming in carnival by discussing drinking & socialising, and its anti-social enemies.

Running Order

00:03:10 – German elections
00:08:20 – Vance's Munich speech
00:26:00 – Will Shoki on South African politics
01:04:55 – Musk and the global radical right
01:13:20 – Letters to the Editors
01:23:10 – Carnival and social drinking

Links:

Trump’s Tool: The Limits of Bannon’s Postmodern Nationalism, Alex Gourevitch, The Northern Star
Make Afrikaners great again! National populism, democracy and the new white minority politics in post- apartheid South Africa, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Why Trump loves corrupt Democrats, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd
The Case for Social Drinking, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin
The Hangover and Life as a Commodity, George Hoare, Damage
Segregation Is Still Alive in Mardi Gras’s Birthplace, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin

With Two New Easy-to-Use Sequencing Instruments, Thermo Readies for Primetime in the Clinic