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What Next: It’s the Alt-Right’s GOP Now

What Next: It’s the Alt-Right’s GOP Now

Update: 2025-12-08
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Ten years ago, the alt-right’s talking points about immigration used to be too toxic to even post on the internet under your own name. So how did they turn into something President Trump regularly fires off on social media?


Guest: Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent for Vox.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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What Next: It’s the Alt-Right’s GOP Now

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