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Series 4 Episode 7: The Property Party

November 10, 2024 • Jim Driscoll • Season 4 • Episode 7

In this episode, recorded on Thursday 7th November, Jim Driscoll and Chris Floyd discuss the comprehensive Trump victory in the recent US election. Using Gore Vidal's idea that there is only one party in America, the Property Party, as a prompt, they discuss the extent to which so many elements of the US establishment have acquiesced in the dismantling of American institutions, and whether Trump represents a genuine repudiation of the tenets of the Property Party, as his followers in effect believe, or whether we are witnessing the Property Party realising that it no longer needs democracy in order to achieve its aims. (No surprise, we favour the latter.) We also moan a bit about the extraordinary tone-deafness of the Harris campaign (which we have discussed before) and extraordinary way in which some pundits are arguing she failed because she went 'too far left'.

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