Dan interviews Sam Adler-Bell and Matt Sitman on the history and post-Trump trajectory of conservative intelligentsia.

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Recommended reading and listening:

"What’s left of liberalism? Why the left and right both seem to agree that liberalism has failed us." By Sam Adler-Bell

"Know Your Enemy #13: What Happened to Norman? with David Klion"

"I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong." By Rick Perlstein

"The dark history of Donald Trump's rightwing revolt." By Timothy Shenk

"The Year the Clock Broke." By John Ganz

"Anti-'68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right." By Quinn Slobodian

"Leaving Conservatism Behind: How I renounced the God-and-guns conservatism of my blue-collar roots and embraced class politics." By Matt Sitman

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