The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
00:09:50 · Fareed Zakaria
[00:09:50] S4: That's a great question. So I think that the general trend we have seen toward right wing populism is very much a global trend, as I was saying. And I think it's basically a reaction to thirty years of increasing acceleration technologically, economically, culturally. I mean, this is what I wrote my last book, Age of Revolutions, about. And it's a backlash against that. It's a bunch of people saying, stop. I wanna get off this train. I I don't want more globalization. I don't want more technological acceleration. I don't want more multiculturalism. Tough to do because all these societies have become what they have become, and you're not gonna be able to stop the clock. But that is the... You know, and and what the right does in situations like that often, this has happened historically, is offer a kind of politics of nostalgia. You know, I'll take you back to before all this turmoil, all this uncertainty. I'll take you back to a comforting place. You know, the most important word on Trump's slogan on his caps is again. Make America great again because it's sort of hearkening back to some utopia. And what I am... I think there is nothing right now going on globally that suggests... That that that, in a sense, echoes what might happen in America. America would be, I think, the trendsetter here because it would be the first time you got a break from that. Lula in Brazil was a little bit of that. And it's, by the way, an astonishing election. He he was down decisively in the first round. No Brazilian president has ever lost the first round and won the second round. He he shifted 10,000,000 votes in three weeks. And that was a whole bunch of different reasons, but that's the the only precursor I can think of. But I think this one is much more important because it is really fundamentally about this issue. Okay, the right wing nostalgia sounds great, but can it deliver? And what you're seeing fascinatingly is that the issues that we would wonder, Scott, why people are not more worried about, the corruption, the abuse of executive authority, they have finally started to bubble up because, in a way, they get tied to people's personal situations and to practical issues people are concerned about. Jon Ossoff has done this very well by linking the corruption to the affordability crisis.
00:12:27 · Fareed Zakaria
You can't afford, you know, groceries, but the the the Trump family and cronies are are making billions. You know? That kind of rhetorical ploy where making these connections seems to have worked. The abusive executive authority wasn't making much headway until people started to see ICE agents firing on people, arresting people with with very dubious explanations for why those people were suspicious. So I think you're finally seeing a kind of human connection to the misgovernment that the that the Trump people have have represented. And so in a way, it may be, you know, this would be this would be the trendsetter. I wouldn't be surprised if if this happens in The United States and you get a genuine blue wave, does it does it make people at the center everywhere think, you know what? There is a path forward. Now a lot will depend on what the Democrats do after. Do they take advantage of this and fashion a kind of viable energetic centrism? Or do they go to the far left? Do they, you know, do their identity politics? Do they, you know, do they kind of fulfill all these progressive fantasies, which in my opinion would turn people off, and and there's fairly good polling data on this. A majority of Democrats think the Democratic Party should be in the center or not not in the, you know, in the in the far left. But... So, you know, you can't just be... Right now, there's a kind of an anti Trump... Right now, there's an anti Trump atmosphere. To translate that into a governing majority, you need to be able to fashion something that people can be affirmatively in favor of.
00:14:16 · Scott Galloway
[00:14:16] S3: So typically Americans are famous for not caring about foreign policy quite frankly. To just focusing on the economy and what puts money in their pocket and then occasionally getting someone activated around a domestic issue. Is it different this time? What role do you think Iran actually played in this anti Trump sentiment?
00:14:35 · Fareed Zakaria
[00:14:35] S4: I think it is different this time. The Iran war is the most unpopular war in American history. It is the first war in the, really, in the modern era that has been unpopular from day one. So the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War were all popular when they began and then became unpopular as they dragged on, as they, you know, seem to... Were to be reaching kind of inconclusive, unsatisfying finishes. The Iran war has been unpopular from day one, the most unpopular war in American history. And I think it's for two reasons. One, nobody really understands why Trump began the war. After having six months earlier done this massive bombing campaign, which rather effectively set back Iran's nuclear program by months, if not years, probably years, I would argue, and that is borne out by some evidence. But then suddenly, on a whim, does it, seems to be about regime change, fails within the first three days when it's clear the Iranian regime is going to survive. That's one piece of it. And the second piece is there is such an obvious tie to inflation with this war. There's such an obvious tie to the simple pocketbook issues that everybody cares about that it's very hard to to deny. I mean, nobody... Even the administration has not tried to make the claim that the Iran war has not directly affected inflation. The Trump's only argument is, well, it'll go away once the war ends. But we're six months into the war, and it hasn't ended. So I think those two things make this case different. And I think, I hope it also... Again, this is where the Democrats can play a role. I hope it will make people understand that we have created a system in this country with just too much broad authority to the executive branch. This was completely the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted. They... Congress is the first branch of government. The phrase for the president is the president is meant to faithfully execute the laws that congress passes. Faithfully execute the laws. He was really seen as a kind of steward trying to make sure that laws were appropriately implemented. He has become a kind of king, particularly with the way the supreme court has ruled. And maybe this Iran war gives the Democrats an opening to say, look.
00:17:05 · Fareed Zakaria, Scott Galloway, S5
We have to rein in this out of control executive that can do all these things without any congressional approval, authorization, vote of confidence, nothing. [00:17:18] S3: We'll be right back after a quick break. [00:17:26] S5: Minneapolis. It's Kara Swisher. This November, Galloway and I are taking Pivot, our wildly entertaining and provocative podcast on the road, and we're coming to you. [00:17:35] S3: Provocative is Latin for chaos. Come see the chaos live on November 4 at the State Theater. [00:17:42] S5: That's That's right. November 4, the day after the midterms. Will democrats ride a wave and take the senate? [00:17:48] S3: Or will republicans pull another survival act? Notice how they gave me that line? [00:17:52] S5: Either way, we'll be yelling about it on stage right next to our very special surprise guest, someone you'll wanna hear from. [00:18:00] S3: We typically only go to the biggest cities, but this was an easy one for us. We definitely had to come back to Minneapolis. [00:18:06] S5: Grab your tickets at pivottour.com before they're gone. Again, that's pivottour.com. [00:18:11] S3: We'll see you on the fourth.
00:18:11 · Scott Galloway, S6, S7, S8
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