EP 922 The Intellectual Framers on the Furious Right

 How has the MAGA movement in Trump 2.0 been so resolute in meeting its objectives, as stated in Project 2025, despite the President’s own disavowal of the document?  The ideas of the unitary executive, the politization of the federal bureaucracy and the dismantlement of federal programs, such as USAID, has been so stark in contrast to Donald Trump’s first term.  In her new book, “The Furious Right: The Making of the MAGA Right,” political theorist, Laura K. Field, describes the movement as a clustered and networked assemblage of three distinct but overlapping camps: The Claremonters, the Postliberals, and the National Conservatives.  Whereas the old GOP establishment stood for free trade, social conservatism, and internationalism (rooted in anticommunism), today’s New Right stands for nationalist economics, social conservatism, isolationism, and anti-immigration.  Can this coalition hand together and achieve its objectives?  That’s the discussion we will have with the author today.

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