JD Vance’s shocking quote on Trump and sexual harassment exposes MAGA

This week we learned that Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance repeatedly suggested in 2016 that he believed Trump committed sexual assault. Vance has since softened his views, but this saga captures the essence of Vance: He knows exactly what he’s getting into now, but he sees Trump as a vehicle to bring about some really radical societal change. We spoke to technology journalist Gil Duran, author of a good article in The New Republic the search for the “techno-authoritarian” worldview that drives Vance, and what his development from a sharp-sighted Trump critic to a convinced MAGA supporter says about today’s red-pill right—and about our politics in general. Listen to that episode here.