@@James-n2t4w yes it was called One Life released in 2023, pretty decent film largely because it's a great story, you can also watch the old That's Life episode where he was 'unmasked' as a hero, it's on TH-cam. Very moving.
My mother (RIP) was all for Trump (strong, smart, handsome, successful, "patriotic" man) ... when I was fixing her smart-TV's network, I planted some Never-Trump content in her TH-cam Watch Later list ... the deprogramming took about a month. She still liked him (we're originally Czech ... he married Ivana ... what can you do) - she just didn't like the idea of him as a President anymore🙃
@tim57243 No, because YT moderation system is compromised by fascists and it will be deleted before you see it. However i can point you towards chanells Hysteria and Meidas Touch. Also, Dylan Burns has some good takes. The most damning thing about Drumpf is truth about his history and family, as well as Anne Applebaum's theory of authoritarianism.
My 2 cents: People tend to judge someone by their worst experience with them, presuming that is their true character, fully exposed and on display. Trump is the 'ID' of America...all the repressed Rage and Grievances have found a very loud outlet, one that tolerates no self-reflection, that will not be silenced, and that believes itself righteous. Half the population is wholeheartedly supportive of this viewpoint. People I have known for decades have revealed their true thoughts...and it is nightmare fuel. BTW I live in New England, where most people self-identify as independent voters!
@@accordioid He is a rich dadd's son, that makes him relevant, important, an expert, respected. His sons are relevant onls because they are the sons of a rich daddy's son. He would have been nothing sould he not have been able to go big in everything iwth satty's money, could not have made use of daddy's staff when opening up a new branch for luxury real estate in daddy Fred's real estate empire. Then he found Roy Cohn, a mob boss lawyer, who knew all the tricks, knew all the shady characters, knew how you can enrich yourself illegally and stay out of jail. Trump Tower is the biggest concrete building in New York (all others of that size are steel skeletons) because Roy Cohn had buddies in the concrete mafia in NY. It was build by polish workers who were illegally imported, kept enclosed on the building site, so ttat they could keep on working while all NY construction workers were on strike, and of course Trump sent them back WITHOUT the promised pay. I think I heard they even got some pay, about 1.4 million. In 1980, Poland was behind the Iron Curtain, comparable liberal, but nevertheless pretty secluded from the western economy and jurisdiction.
Neither can at least half the U.S. public understand how anyone could support this criminal! I think most of the people supporting Trump have bought into the HUGE exploited fear of immigrants and the takeover of the U.S. by 'non-whites'. Trump plays into these fears and the underlying promise is he'll keep the U.S. white and nationalistic. I hear many say they don't like him as a person, but think he will keep them safer from immigrants than the Democrats, so they will vote for him. Canada, not being directly on a huge migration border may not have developed as much of a fear of immigrants that is then exploited by Canadian politicians. It is sad and scary and I , being a U.S. citizen, can only hope Trump will be defeated along with all the other politicians taking our rights away, promoting hatred and wanting to end Democracy. Scary times.
A lot of people are hanging on the election results thinking-"wow, if he wins, what does that say about America?"...well, we know for sure Trump is going to get 47-52% of the popular vote. It makes no difference in that regard whether he wins or loses. That nearly half of Americans think this guy should hold the most important position in perhaps the world already makes the statement. We got problems.
It won't matter what the results are. Trump and his network plan to steal it either way. If he won it's because of the actions they took before the election to change voting rules across the US. If he "loses", then the people they packed into election boards will refuse to certify, cause more chaos, until certain deadlines hit that either push the decision to the supreme court or to the House, both of which are majority republican... and they'll give him the presidency. Did you know in GA they've forced them to handcount all 5 million ballots on that day of the election. And they know it isn't possible with how many workers they have and is less accurate than machine counting. Mark my words... come November all this stuff will be a surprise to everyone, but you'll have heard it here first. They've already won.
Ain't that the truth, Trump is like the red pustules of chicken pox, a symptom, not the cause. Chicken pox is only on the mend when these lesions crust and form scabs. I don't know when this is going to happen with Trump-phoid fever.
My cult? Not even close. Trump rules a cult because his followers have made it perfectly clear that no matter what wrong he does, they will support him. The only reason I’m voting for Harris is because she does not have all of Trumps traits. If Harris was a multiple convicted felon who tried to steal the 2020 election stoking a mob I can assure you I would have nothing to do with her.
The problem is electing a cadaver followed by a woman who can't put a sentence together; because their party is so corrupt they did away with the best candidate they've had in the last 50 years. Bernie Sanders.
I first learned of the Holocaust as a child in the 1960's, not from school History classes, but from a book I found on my father's stack. Then in 1976 the movie Marathon Man was released. What I found deeply disturbing, was when I learned there are Holocaust Deniers.
@@jennifercollver827 I actually learned about it from looking at what Zionists/ Israelis do to Palestinians . I was shocked ( but it made sense ) that 95% of the Jews who were massacred in Europe were anti Israel / anti Zionist and leftist socialists. Go figure 🤷🏻♂️
The scariest thing to me is that even after Trump is finally gone, we will still be dealing with a large number of his MAGA supporters, their anger, and the way they think.
This is a wise observation. Half of the US supports Trump. How will you deal with your neighbours? Lock them up? Disenfranchise them? Dismiss them? I hope Trump wins. Trump is flawed. It is obvious. Democrats don’t see their own weaknesses.
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Idiocracy, rather than being a satirical movie, was an unintentional futurist documentary.
I lived in New York from 1964 to 1973. Never got how people didn’t see through his con, but they did The Apprentice created an image of him for the rest of the country that wasn’t real but it sold.
Nicholas Winton is the British businessman that Malcolm was trying to think of who saved almost 700 children from the Holocaust and then didn't talk about it for 50 years after the war.
I was thinking a while ago That if somebody had told me that The President of the United States could buy a hotel and ask every official visitor to stay in that hotel, Explicitly or implicitly, I would have told you that it could never happen. I would've thought the pigs could fly before that could happen.
@@Sayheybrother8 It is amazing. Putting it mildly. You left out the other worthless criminal, obama. My cult good, your cult bad. I know because my cult leaders tell me so.
@@Sayheybrother8The poster never said that any party is without corrupt actors. Where did you read that? Most Democrats I meet don’t care if a Democrat is arrested for fraud. Lock em up is my opinion. The poster is specifically addressing Trump’s actions. Do you have any response? Did your parents raise you to think that if others steal, you can/should too? Mine didn’t.
Oh Malcolm, it is really quite simple. MAGA Trump supporters get validated by Trump’s hate and his appeal to volence. These people look at life as if it is a television show like The Apprentice. They get a charge out of the idea that Bad Boy Trump is anti-social and that his language encourages anger and dissension. They see this as a form of entertainment - until it is their turn to be hung out to dry.
I agree. The show "The Apprentice" was based on exploitation and not on actual capitalism which is a form of commerce operated on honesty and truth. Trump exploits, that's all he knows because his whole world is steeped in lies and crass distortions. A lot of people see it as a mark of being smart when you can "sell" lies and deceit, but that's exploitation. A show like "Shark Tank" is another example, those billionaire investors never buy anything unless they can make a 50% or higher margin on what they want to sell. Margins are a never ending measure of exploitation. The only way to reach 100% margin is to put the cost price at zero or negative.
Says fans of a woman who never won a primary or any election, is endorsed by hollywood, including lovers of dem backers weinstein, epstein and diddy and whose appearances are limited to puff pieces from dem love ins Oprah, the view, jimny kimmel and ru paul. Shes so real 😂😂😂😂
I was thinking something similar just the other day. I was wondering if trump hadn't had a tv show in which he was, or was perceived as, the bully and a sh*# disturber - if he was just someone who had risen in the political world, like Biden for example, would they be buying all his accusations and antics etc? I don't think so, they'd think he was crooked and corrupt and disingenuous.
The "Trump Contagion". Yes, Dr. Lee has a firm grip on this phenomenon. Times Radio will likely NEVER interview her. It's a Murdoch property and all. But we shall see.
Oppressed groups who ‘get out of it’ often do not tell. My Japanese-American friend in high school did not learn that she was BORN in a camp in Utah until she was a senior in high school. I knew nothing as well. Her grandchildren were the ones to raise the issue. I don’t think this is unusual.
Well, Murdoch with the collusion of the Reagan administration (and the powers that were pulling the strings of the Reagan administration). And ditching the Fairness Doctrine. And the rise of AM radio that had stations that were allowed to lie. If I were going to point to "one reason", I'd say "oligarchs who are actually underneath terrified, so their fear compels them to try to control everything and everyone, but that still doesn't make them feel safe, so they do more of it." But it's more involved than that.
The MAGA movement more resembles religion than anything else. The persistence of MAGA support/belief in the face of contradictory evidence is similar to the persistence of religious “belief”.
It's a cult of autoritarianism, just as any other before it. Only difference is the psychological omnipresence of post-truth populism (also neo-fascism) it's based on, after Dugin.
I live with a cult member and they do NOT believe in religion of any kind. The real problem is that they have the same personality disorders as trump their cult leader who gives them permission to be their worst.
Even worse is trying to understand how your own relatives swoon over Trump and hang on his every word. They all think I’ve gone crazy because I can’t perceive how amazingly attractive and righteous he is.
they see the abyss on the other side- which they are right + people love being able to have someone to blame and he offers that in spades. yes dt is a bad choice but progressives themselves do this in spades- this idea that progressives have something better to offer is laughable in thought and criminal in practice
@@TimGeorge-dp7wb The abyss on the other side? What "other side" is that Tim? Like they have in western Europe? That abyss? You know, where all the world's happiest countries are? You're one of those guys who has never left his own country and likely never even left his own state. This would explain your ignorance. But politics isn't really the point here. Trump is not a political creature: his "politics" can be summed up as "what's in this for me", and he is single- and simple-minded about it.
@@tommymorrison6478 Take a good and long gander at the picture behind this author being interviewed. Do you know who it is? Do you know how many bodies lie in his wake? That ideology?
@@TimGeorge-dp7wbBollocks! Have you ever lived or been to an authoritarian country? That is what Trump and his cronies want. Religious, truthful, honest, chaste, fair, Trump is the opposite of these character traits. Wake up to yourself, this man is a monster.
Well, if you look behind the clown and just look at the policy results it's pretty straight forward republican stuff. *Lower taxes especially on the rich, less regulations, anti-abortion, social conservatism and a record number of lunatic judges.* So I don't find it hard to believe that every republican in the country, that doesn't care about decency, morals, etiquette or international reputation... will gladly vote for him purely out of self interest.
Exactly. And anyone who is convinced the other side doesn't have any morals either has an even easier time voting for T. Which is why that's always the his talking point. But self-interest is so key. He promises Musk a seat in government, and he's immediately on board. Most of his "allies" are rewarded by him enough to make it worth it. Later to regret it because it always ends in betrayal, but when you're under his spell and convinced that he's "the one" no one else matters, because it's self-interest, not to do with anyone else.
SALTYDECKHAND. So tell me about this international reputation. You mean the reputation that sleepy joe greatly maintained for the last 4 years, and now dingbat is maintaining.
@@thbadmin7751 you do realise your underlining his point with that comment dont you? who we criticise is ALWAYS about us as people, regardless of who they are.
Our notion of how and why democracy is the best system is based on the worthy idea that we act with good intent, except for a few malign actors. Unfortunately, our thoughts and actions are not always steered by rationality and logic but more by habit, emotion, tribal loyalty, family pressures, shortsightedness, etc. This helps to explain how an individual like Donald Trump or a small group can exploit the fundamental shortcomings of human nature for their ends.
I'm more of the opinion that a growing number of malign actors has over the years figured out precisely what the weak points of democracy are, and how best to exploit them. A big part in what goes on in the usa is the existence of so called "news" networks like fox etc which are uninhibitedly spreading lies to their viewers in the interest of manipulating their voting. Even the more neutral networks have mostly given up on fact checking the massive flood of lies being put out daily by the republican party and their nominee. Every network which claims to serve news should be obliged to have some independent fact checking being run on their news segment, which either would be shown while those news are served or on screen during the next news serving.
i agree with everything you just said but find it laughable that the progressives/alternative run entirely on emotion/hyperbole and just as many lies. we are in a world with 2 sides behaving exactly the same and trying to hold some moral high ground
@@TimGeorge-dp7wb That is the typical rightwing talking point of saying "Yeah we lie as lot, but hey so do they" which is just another lie. Do centre or left wing oriented people never lie? Nope, but they certainly do not lie with the same frequency as the right wing in the usa currently does.
@@TimGeorge-dp7wb Ah yes. Both sides are actively conspiring to rig elections. Both sides are involved in criminal conspiracies to defraud voters. Both sides are campaigning on taking away basic human rights. Both sides want to defund public schools and deny climate change. Oh wait. That's just Trump and Republicans.
The party affiliation data is reported but not the actual vote. The vote tally starts on Election Day in PA. Historically, more Democrats tend to vote early.
Its a bit like when a mother in law takes her abusive son in law's side, over her beaten up daughter. That kind of insane dynamic. Bullies admire bullies.
Yes, but I'd go farther. Almost anyone that isn't over-thinking chronically can feel why people feel they way that they feel. He talks and thinks too much.
Hi Melcolm, if you really don't understand, perhaps you should use this as "great mystery" to investigate in your next book. As I'm writing this comnent, Trump won the election by a landslide, the Senate majority turned red, as most elected Goveners, and almost certailly the house too. As an outsider (I'm an Israeli Jew), but not without skin in the game, let me suggest few points as thought fodder: 1. Due to social media influence, the left had lost his total grip on the media, which most public now recognize as manipulting, lying bunch in the service of the woke left. The established press and media had completely lost its raison d'être, as guard dog for the people from the government, and become loudspeaker propaganda for the government, touting values, which most American detest. 2. What is now touted as "liberalism" by the center left would be totaly unreconizable as such by them (and nearly everybody else) up to the mid ninties, and even by early 2000's it was the regarded as a fringe academic culture.
@@nobodynever7884 Dressed in his signature grey suit and gently smirking, the murderous Chinese dictator hovers menacingly over the 57-year-old’s right shoulder. Malcolm finds the poster hilarious, explaining that he bought it at a garage sale 15 years ago and rediscovered it in a cupboard recently. “I thought how fun it would be, while transacting business at my desk, to have Mao visible over my shoulder,” he explains. “The idea of having this truly despicable tyrant reminding me of the importance of being human while I work - I thought that was good.”
You are more worried about the implied or not message the poster in the back gives but NOT bothered at all from the actually real speech and actions from a fascist criminal conman. That says a lot more about you and the rest of the maga cult than some poster does about him or us
An America man said years ago he could shoot someone and still be elected president. He now could once again hold the US executive office. Were he assume that role while a legally imprisoned convict would hardly matter to those who support him.
Yep I said that years ago. Now I would say it about all people in high places. It has nothing to do with the people supporting them. It is about they don't have to play by the same rules as the average person. Open your damn eyes. Because they haven't been open for the last few years.
So we should just throw up our ands and do nothing but whine about how helpless we are? Or maybe we could do small things that would move us in a direction where corporatists won't control both parties? They are only human beings, after all; they aren't special.
Considering monocultures. . . It’s an interesting and distressing situation where I live in south western France near Narbonne. . .we’ve been in a stubborn drought for the last three years. . .and now, after the end of yet another disastrous fall harvest, winegrowers, almost universally, find themselves on the edge of bankruptcy. This concerns practically EVERYONE who lives here and has begun to touch the ENTIRE populace! Generous government support over the generations has enticed everyone here to make wine and ignore all other agricultural options. Without heavy, continuous rains soon the future looks grim for this whole region. . .
I so agree about the perils of monoculture! That's why we had the Irish potato famine. Some growers in the California wine region are planting varieties that need less water, are resilient to drought. I realize this is not a solution, but it could help people in the meantime. Best solution would be to diversify, to grow various things.
To say that holocaust survivors not talking about it is "extraordinary" is ludicrous😮 it is completely normal. My father and my uncle were WW2 vets. Several of our neighbors were vets. I have many acquaintances that a Vietnam vets. None of them like to talk about it😮. I am a non combat veteran Vietnam vet and I don't talk about it it!!!!!
But they're not holocaust "survivors", are they. They may have seen a bit of it, but they didn't live through it. I knew a holocaust survivor, he talked about it all the time, he developed a talking tour of schools where he would describe what it was like to be the only survivor of an extended European Jewish family.
@@petergaskin1811 I'm talking about the ones that lived through it. He specifically said that they did not talk about it until the seventies. He used the word "extraordinary.". Same as war veterans 😯.
The sad thing is Trump couldn't remember the items from his dementia evaluation; he just described the things he saw at the time in that TV interview: the person sitting in front of him, the woman and man off camera, the camera and the TV monitor.
And that was from 6 years ago. My wife, now diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's, has gone from a vibrant fully functioning human being to a shadow, a ghost, of her former self in ONE year.
@@petergaskin1811 My favorite Donald dementia quotes were the ones praising Victor Orban, the president of Hungary (another wannabe dictator) Said Orban was "the president of Turkey, which has a border with Russia". Next rally, he went "president of Hungary, which has a border with Russia." No, it doesn't.
Which is why cheating on voting is just never seen in the progressive side of politics, but the idea never leaves the lips of the regressive side. Absolutely all of the multiple voters are indeed Republicans, the party that insists that the Democrats are doing this non-stop. Weird eh!
Australia, the country that infamously rebuked science and took away their citizen's freedoms is in no place to be lecturing America about their arbitrary police clearance. When Trump becomes president again and wants to visit the abomination known as Australia, they will roll the red carpet before they consider handcuffs.
He did not. Can you actually say that his handling of COVID was good? And he’s the only President in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he came in. (And that’s the NON-COVID losses.)
Love and appreciate Malcolm’s reporting/podcasts and all the great work he’s done. That said, to the uninformed, and those who lean towards MAGA, who might watch this video, seeing a picture of Chairman Mao hanging on the wall behind him, is not a great idea, and will probably be misconstrued.
you'd think you'd have to clearly swear to abide by the election results to be allowed to run for office. ...but trump already says he'll 'never concede' - should be disqualifying.
Yeah, Mao Zedong is no one to be admired. We didn’t call him ‘Mad Dog Mao’ for nothing. Mao was an autocratic, totalitarian dictator. His policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions. Karl Marx on the other hand is unfairly vilified when he himself would have been appalled at how Lenin and Stalin appropriated and barstardized the terms socialism and communism. The term ‘socialism’ comes from the root word ‘social’ meaning: needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities. "we are social beings as well as individuals". The term ‘communism’ comes from the root word ‘commune’ meaning: a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities. The terms ‘communism’ and ‘socialism’ are misnomers. Marx should not be maligned. Marx was a humanist that focused his attention on the exploitation of the poor working class under the tyrannical repression imposed by the capitalist ruling class. There’s NO such thing as Marxist-Leninism, it was Leninism and then Stalinism, and in China Maoism. They were all authoritarian dictatorships.
@Delpix722 An in-depth study on basic sentence structure would make your comment more easily understood. If you are referring to the money that is going to where it has been designated to go, that answers your question.
I noticed this when the world learned for a second time about Michael Jackson. The first time it was "just" in the news, but the second time it stuck, because it came in the format of a tv miniseries
In the UK there has been a long-running scandal about a disgracefully flawed piece of software used by the Post Office which caused hundreds of sub-postmasters to be bankrupted and imprisoned. The flaws were known about for decades and multiple journalistic outlets followed up on this and never let go of it (pat on the back for "Computer Weekly" and "Private Eye"). The Government's response recently was - "it'll have to go through the Appeal Courts, there's nothing we can do". Cue a TV mini-series, and all that changed overnight.
Re: picture of Mao behind Gladwell: He bought it at a garage sale and has said that the poster serves as a reminder that life is complicated and that humans are not always clear. He also said that it's a good corrective if he ever gets on his high horse.
Until Trump I thought having a poster of Mao was a "never here" bit of interest...but then ReTHUGliKKKons made Trump the MAD KING and the unfunny jester of Hate and Malice.
The reason 45 was nominated in 2024 is because we are the United States of Adolescents. Respecfully and Gratefully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA États Unis
this was in a marketing book 20 yrs ago. Nothing new. There was an entire chapter on how Americans see their leaders…. and if you check off all the boxes you pretty much get Trump. And no matter how much name calling these “intellectuals” resort to to try to explain it, it only shows how out of touch they are with the country as a whole or what actually drives people.
There is a plausible story about Trump's popularity at "msnbc anti shame ritual". This claims there are four steps for Trump to increment his popularity: 1. Trump says something transgressive. 2. Many people shame him. 3. Trump says that I stand for all of you. 4. Trump angrily attacks the people who were shaming him. People who previously felt shame now feel anger, if they choose to identify with Trump. Anger feels better than shame, so that is an improvement.
🇨🇦 As a fellow Canadian, and one who has read The Tipping Point, I admire Malcolm’s work. I enjoyed seeing his classic Roots’ shirt. 😊 ( Pretty sure it’s a Roots.) Now, I am curious as to why there was a huge photo of Mao over his shoulder, I’m sure there’s a good reason and would like to hear it.
So, Malcolm, as someone who has casually justified the seizure of rights from people based on a disease with a less than 2% fatality rate, and physical and social segregation, based purely on non-conforming behavior, I will no longer be recommending your books, or you. Thank you for your honesty.
13:35 - Pretty sure you're talking about Oskar Schindler, the protagonist of Spielberg's "Schindler's List," a German businessman who saved the lives of over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
Escape from Sobivor, Tenko and Roots were the historic dramas which left a lasting impression from my childhood, late 70's early 80's. John Amos - older Kunta Kinte, died a few days ago. I wasn't impressed by the 2016 remake.
It's not that difficult to explain if you assume a massive mental health and education crisis in the country. Which impacts our understanding of ourselves and external events.
Malcom said there were no structural issues at play with oxycodone launching the opioid epidemic. That is false. One structural issue is that under our current social economic system, the qualities of ruthlessness and greed are lavishly rewarded. That is structural, also cultural. Another structural issue at play was that Purdue Pharmaceutical was one company, but it had massive influence and reach in the medical field; antitrust legislation could limit this. Another structural issue was the revolving door/porous nature of the relationship between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies. This is fairly basic stuff that it is surprising Malcolm Gladwell could not perceive. I think it is rooted in orthodox capitalist bias.
All good points, and I agree: it's like not seeing the air you breathe. You're so used to it, you assume it's some elemental thing that has always existed. Surprising, since he's so insightful in other ways. I appreciate your bringing this up, because there's something about Gladwell's writing that's always just-- not reached me. Felt off.
i dn' t see that. Really feels like so many of us such as you are not willing or maybe able to see complex systems interactions. I'm a liberal, very very liberal in most ways who studied a bit about policy when studying international affairs. U r right about american culture of ruthlessness and greed, but there were curbs culturally too. But i do agree generally. But it takes culture to shift that, including via law and the enforcement of law.
Thanks for the amazing interview. I have been an avid reader all my life, but Malcom's books have been the ones I read again and again. He is such a great writer, and I am thrilled to read the latest.
Perhaps the Trump phenomenon is simply a result of frustration. A substantial number of people feel like they've tried to do the right thing and are just sick of trying and getting no results. I think of the line in "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" "I haven't had a day off in over a year." So they give up and go totally selfish. Short-sighted, to be sure, but feeling like they're looking out for themselves.
Oh dear Gladwell... you're making the same mistake as the Monk debate: not listening and assuming everyone thinks like you and if they don't, they should!
The Potemkin lawsuits resulting in "convicted felon" are very interesting and instructive. I wonder if Hillary, or Comey, or the many others will be similarly gleeful with their convictions if an alternative administration came to power and similarly prosecuted them? The executive branch has deployed so many extra ordinary powers which seem to be contrary to the constitution, creating a precedent that now terrifies the people who used those powers for nefarious purposes. It's almost as if they could never conceive of a situation where these extraordinary powers (electronic surveillance) could ever be turned against them? Or when caught red-handed (Hunter's laptop), finding it inconceivable that their gaslighting could be ineffective. Orwellian "that never happened" videos shown side by side with the same person stating the opposite, proving that it indeed occur only a few months before.
Trump has been PROVEN to have a "business career" largely made of FRAUD for DECADES. Perhaps, you culd explore some information OTHER THN tRUMP'S OWN self-SERVING WORDS.
Well, most of those who feel that way belong to the upper 10% in terms of wealth. See, that group isn’t particularly bothered by inflation so they have time to worry about some ridiculous NY charges that took more than two years for prosecutors to mangle the law enough to get around the statute of limitations before splitting the same charge into 34 separate pieces (something specifically forbidden by the prosecutors oath). It’s quite sad how delusional half of the country has become (and a large chunk of Canada, apparently).
Well the good news is half the country may be following Trump, but the Dems control 70% of the wealth, and most of the institutions. So, really, uncork a bottle...
@@CyndeLooWho Coming from a blind blue cult member, where the establishment gave them their puppet. We all know the establishment cares about the average person.
I have to push back on Gladwell’s assertion that the Holocaust wasn’t presented in media until the 80s. He and I are about the same age, he grew up in Toronto and I several hours north of Toronto, straight up highway 11. In the late 60s I saw on CBC videos of bodies being bulldozed and thrown into mass graves. To time stamp this is when I saw on television Gordon Lightfoot’s “Black Day in July” video… not called video back then… about the riots in the 60s. I was 7 or 8 when I saw both on television. These images have never left me. Gladwell perhaps missed these tv episodes when he was a child, they were horrible to watch. They seemed unreal to as a kid growing up in northern Ontario. But for Gladwell to claim the holocaust wasn’t on media until much later, I beg to differ. The CBC did so in the late 60s.
Yes, I've been familiar with the Holocaust since childhood (60s); I assumed I was taught this in school (in Canada), since I wouldn't have gone seeking the information out myself. I preferred to believe humanity was, you know, humane.
I knew about the Holocaust growing up in the US in the 1960s as well. I can't remember how, but between growing up in a bookish family with shelves full of books in the house, whose parents were in WWII, and whose neighbors were Holocaust survivors (plus the many friends who grandparents came over to escape the pogroms), of course I knew about it. There was and is plenty of reading material on it, I was well aware of it by at least age 11. And yes, there were jokes about Nazis on TV, in skits and shows-- I think that was one way of distancing ourselves from it, saying it could never happen again. Though, sadly...
The reason nothing changes for Trump supporters is like religion, when you believe something for a long time, it is difficult to admit having been wrong for such a long time. Slava Ukraini!
If Trump was ‘wrong’ as you put it, then Trump would have lost against Hilary in 2016. However, he was elected president that year. Thus proving Trump was in the right, just like all previous presidents in the past (except Woodrow Wilson).
@@Delpix722 Trump lost the majority vote. Russia interfered with the US election by pushing fake news, like you and your fellow trolls, into the mass media stream. You are still wrong, and will not admit it. Slava Ukraini!
As a centrist - I find it shocking the lack of intellectual curiosity to explain why Trump is popular. It is very easy to understand (even if you don’t agree) if you get out of your bubble.
Bingo, plus Trump doesn't exist in a vacuum. He's obviously going to be judged against the person he's running against (read: vapid and incompetent puppet).
100% agreed. Im not a fan of Trump, specifically because he is NOT a fiscally responsible conservative. But to not be able to see why people are fed up with a party that is completely authoritarian (see what they did to Sanders) is absolutely being in a bubble.
@@nobodynever7884 "completely authoritarian," what "they" did to Sanders, etc. is the kind of excess hyperbole that has paranoid thinking at its root. If you understood the full spectrum of voter opinion within the party perhaps you'd realize that the progressive wing's darling Sanders didn't get the nomination because he was not preferred by Democrat moderates.
That's a bit mean. I don't always agree with him, but he's articulate, thoughtful and curious. And he made it as a writer in the Big Apple, which is a big accomplishment for a guy from small town Ontario. It's not surprising that Gladwell has a lot of fans in Canada.
@@roberthanks1636he has a picture behind him of a man responsible for the deaths of 60 million people and the torture and incarceration of many more. No words are mean enough for a man who praises that type of character.
@@nobodynever7884 It's an odd choice, to be sure, but it is not proof that Gladwell venerates Mao. Some people collect propaganda posters as a type of art or as historical artifacts. Jordan Peterson has a large portrait of Lenin in his house, but I'm pretty certain that Peterson is not a communist. I would judge Gladwell by his books and essays.
Dressed in his signature grey suit and gently smirking, the murderous Chinese dictator hovers menacingly over the 57-year-old’s right shoulder. Malcolm finds the poster hilarious, explaining that he bought it at a garage sale 15 years ago and rediscovered it in a cupboard recently. “I thought how fun it would be, while transacting business at my desk, to have Mao visible over my shoulder,” he explains. “The idea of having this truly despicable tyrant reminding me of the importance of being human while I work - I thought that was good.”
Might thoughts as well. Palo Alto and Gunn high schools saw a large number of suicides, often via Caltrain tracks. And Palo Alto is tall trees in Spanish, hence "grove "
I had an uncle who fought in the Pacific during WW2. When he got home he married, started a business and raised two kids. His son told me numerous times that his dad never spoke about his experiences in the war. I found out later this was quite common. My point is that whatever prompts Holocaust survivors to demur from conversation re their experiences maybe remarkably similiar to a great many that survived being on the line.
I love the idea of a good intelligent writer writing a 'sequel' after about 15+years... A fabulous way to revisit ideas, experiences and reflect on the way the world has changed.
Sir Nicholas Winton was the British businessman who saved the lives of several hundred Jewish children before war broke out - the kindertransporten.
Didn't Anthony Hopkins portray him in a film recently?
@@James-n2t4w yes it was called One Life released in 2023, pretty decent film largely because it's a great story, you can also watch the old That's Life episode where he was 'unmasked' as a hero, it's on TH-cam. Very moving.
My mother (RIP) was all for Trump (strong, smart, handsome, successful, "patriotic" man) ... when I was fixing her smart-TV's network, I planted some Never-Trump content in her TH-cam Watch Later list ... the deprogramming took about a month. She still liked him (we're originally Czech ... he married Ivana ... what can you do) - she just didn't like the idea of him as a President anymore🙃
Damn, I wish I could do that with my father but all he watches is Fox and Newsmax. Strictly a TV guy.
BRAVO!
Information Silos might be a big part of what's happening.
Can you give a playlist? I am in a similar situation with my wife.
@tim57243
No, because YT moderation system is compromised by fascists and it will be deleted before you see it. However i can point you towards chanells Hysteria and Meidas Touch. Also, Dylan Burns has some good takes. The most damning thing about Drumpf is truth about his history and family, as well as Anne Applebaum's theory of authoritarianism.
Malcolm Gladwell, myself and plenty more fellow Canadians can't understand why Trump is even a candidate.
My 2 cents: People tend to judge someone by their worst experience with them, presuming that is their true character, fully exposed and on display.
Trump is the 'ID' of America...all the repressed Rage and Grievances have found a very loud outlet, one that tolerates no self-reflection, that will not be silenced, and that believes itself righteous. Half the population is wholeheartedly supportive of this viewpoint.
People I have known for decades have revealed their true thoughts...and it is nightmare fuel. BTW I live in New England, where most people self-identify as independent voters!
Or why he is on TV, and not in jail.
@@georgine321 Louche charisma, chutzpah, luck, and money.
@@accordioid He is a rich dadd's son, that makes him relevant, important, an expert, respected. His sons are relevant onls because they are the sons of a rich daddy's son.
He would have been nothing sould he not have been able to go big in everything iwth satty's money, could not have made use of daddy's staff when opening up a new branch for luxury real estate in daddy Fred's real estate empire.
Then he found Roy Cohn, a mob boss lawyer, who knew all the tricks, knew all the shady characters, knew how you can enrich yourself illegally and stay out of jail.
Trump Tower is the biggest concrete building in New York (all others of that size are steel skeletons) because Roy Cohn had buddies in the concrete mafia in NY.
It was build by polish workers who were illegally imported, kept enclosed on the building site, so ttat they could keep on working while all NY construction workers were on strike, and of course Trump sent them back WITHOUT the promised pay.
I think I heard they even got some pay, about 1.4 million. In 1980, Poland was behind the Iron Curtain, comparable liberal, but nevertheless pretty secluded from the western economy and jurisdiction.
Neither can at least half the U.S. public understand how anyone could support this criminal! I think most of the people supporting Trump have bought into the HUGE exploited fear of immigrants and the takeover of the U.S. by 'non-whites'. Trump plays into these fears and the underlying promise is he'll keep the U.S. white and nationalistic. I hear many say they don't like him as a person, but think he will keep them safer from immigrants than the Democrats, so they will vote for him. Canada, not being directly on a huge migration border may not have developed as much of a fear of immigrants that is then exploited by Canadian politicians. It is sad and scary and I , being a U.S. citizen, can only hope Trump will be defeated along with all the other politicians taking our rights away, promoting hatred and wanting to end Democracy. Scary times.
A lot of people are hanging on the election results thinking-"wow, if he wins, what does that say about America?"...well, we know for sure Trump is going to get 47-52% of the popular vote. It makes no difference in that regard whether he wins or loses. That nearly half of Americans think this guy should hold the most important position in perhaps the world already makes the statement. We got problems.
It won't matter what the results are. Trump and his network plan to steal it either way. If he won it's because of the actions they took before the election to change voting rules across the US. If he "loses", then the people they packed into election boards will refuse to certify, cause more chaos, until certain deadlines hit that either push the decision to the supreme court or to the House, both of which are majority republican... and they'll give him the presidency. Did you know in GA they've forced them to handcount all 5 million ballots on that day of the election. And they know it isn't possible with how many workers they have and is less accurate than machine counting. Mark my words... come November all this stuff will be a surprise to everyone, but you'll have heard it here first. They've already won.
Ain't that the truth, Trump is like the red pustules of chicken pox, a symptom, not the cause. Chicken pox is only on the mend when these lesions crust and form scabs. I don't know when this is going to happen with Trump-phoid fever.
And in your eyes that doesn't apply to your cult.
My cult? Not even close. Trump rules a cult because his followers have made it perfectly clear that no matter what wrong he does, they will support him. The only reason I’m voting for Harris is because she does not have all of Trumps traits. If Harris was a multiple convicted felon who tried to steal the 2020 election stoking a mob I can assure you I would have nothing to do with her.
The problem is electing a cadaver followed by a woman who can't put a sentence together; because their party is so corrupt they did away with the best candidate they've had in the last 50 years. Bernie Sanders.
I first learned of the Holocaust as a child in the 1960's, not from school History classes, but from a book I found on my father's stack. Then in 1976 the movie Marathon Man was released. What I found deeply disturbing, was when I learned there are Holocaust Deniers.
Did your dad also have a picture of Chairman Mao on the wall as casually as if it were a poster of Elvis? Or is that just Mr Gladwell?
@@XX-mw5fhAnd this matters because..?
I learned about the Holog=caust at age 12 in the late 1960s, reading Ann Frank's Diary
I found out about the Holocaust in the 1950''s when I asked my Pediatrician about the numbers tattooed on his arm.
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I actually learned about it from looking at what Zionists/ Israelis do to Palestinians .
I was shocked ( but it made sense ) that 95% of the Jews who were massacred in Europe were anti Israel / anti Zionist and leftist socialists.
Go figure 🤷🏻♂️
The scariest thing to me is that even after Trump is finally gone, we will still be dealing with a large number of his MAGA supporters, their anger, and the way they think.
Don't worry. Too many are now following Trumpwasim for the MAGA God Squad to make a dent.
Maga cult supports the FELON due to they are sociopath narrissitis and can relate to him!
"the way they think" ?? I think you miswrote that...
Can they spell the word ?
This is a wise observation. Half of the US supports Trump. How will you deal with your neighbours? Lock them up? Disenfranchise them? Dismiss them? I hope Trump wins. Trump is flawed. It is obvious. Democrats don’t see their own weaknesses.
Idiocracy, rather than being a satirical movie, was an unintentional futurist documentary.
Living in the NY area, I have been watching Trump since the 1980’s. To me he’s always had that conman vibe.
Understatement of the day.
I lived in New York from 1964 to 1973. Never got how people didn’t see through his con, but they did The Apprentice created an image of him for the rest of the country that wasn’t real but it sold.
@@bj6515I was expecting something a little less obvious myself.
Conald
@@eduardodiaz2649Conald Trump
Nicholas Winton is the British businessman that Malcolm was trying to think of who saved almost 700 children from the Holocaust and then didn't talk about it for 50 years after the war.
I was thinking a while ago That if somebody had told me that The President of the United States could buy a hotel and ask every official visitor to stay in that hotel, Explicitly or implicitly, I would have told you that it could never happen. I would've thought the pigs could fly before that could happen.
How are you so bling to the corrupt behavior of your own party? How? It’s asinine that you’d vote for Hillary and bill and then say Trump is corrupt!
@@Sayheybrother8 It is amazing. Putting it mildly. You left out the other worthless criminal, obama. My cult good, your cult bad. I know because my cult leaders tell me so.
@@Sayheybrother8 Hear hear!
@@Sayheybrother8The poster never said that any party is without corrupt actors. Where did you read that? Most Democrats I meet don’t care if a Democrat is arrested for fraud. Lock em up is my opinion. The poster is specifically addressing Trump’s actions. Do you have any response? Did your parents raise you to think that if others steal, you can/should too? Mine didn’t.
Oh Malcolm, it is really quite simple. MAGA Trump supporters get validated by Trump’s hate and his appeal to volence. These people look at life as if it is a television show like The Apprentice. They get a charge out of the idea that Bad Boy Trump is anti-social and that his language encourages anger and dissension. They see this as a form of entertainment - until it is their turn to be hung out to dry.
I agree. The show "The Apprentice" was based on exploitation and not on actual capitalism which is a form of commerce operated on honesty and truth. Trump exploits, that's all he knows because his whole world is steeped in lies and crass distortions. A lot of people see it as a mark of being smart when you can "sell" lies and deceit, but that's exploitation.
A show like "Shark Tank" is another example, those billionaire investors never buy anything unless they can make a 50% or higher margin on what they want to sell. Margins are a never ending measure of exploitation. The only way to reach 100% margin is to put the cost price at zero or negative.
Brilliantly said!
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Says fans of a woman who never won a primary or any election, is endorsed by hollywood, including lovers of dem backers weinstein, epstein and diddy and whose appearances are limited to puff pieces from dem love ins Oprah, the view, jimny kimmel and ru paul.
Shes so real 😂😂😂😂
I was thinking something similar just the other day. I was wondering if trump hadn't had a tv show in which he was, or was perceived as, the bully and a sh*# disturber - if he was just someone who had risen in the political world, like Biden for example, would they be buying all his accusations and antics etc? I don't think so, they'd think he was crooked and corrupt and disingenuous.
I think cult theory that Bandy Lee and other mental health experts describe is the best explanation
The deep cultural identity and tribalism was already there, it just went to its logical endpoint of being focused on one great leader.
The "Trump Contagion". Yes, Dr. Lee has a firm grip on this phenomenon. Times Radio will likely NEVER interview her. It's a Murdoch property and all. But we shall see.
Also see Anne Applebaum. She explains autoritarian tendencies with ease.
Yes, I agree.
She describes it as a contagion.
Oppressed groups who ‘get out of it’ often do not tell. My Japanese-American friend in high school did not learn that she was BORN in a camp in Utah until she was a senior in high school. I knew nothing as well. Her grandchildren were the ones to raise the issue. I don’t think this is unusual.
Religion has the same problem. No evidence but we(humanity) just needs to believe. No matter how unlikely.
One reason, it’s simple: Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch is a good example of an immigrant that is ruining our country.
And Elon Musk.
Well, Murdoch with the collusion of the Reagan administration (and the powers that were pulling the strings of the Reagan administration). And ditching the Fairness Doctrine. And the rise of AM radio that had stations that were allowed to lie. If I were going to point to "one reason", I'd say "oligarchs who are actually underneath terrified, so their fear compels them to try to control everything and everyone, but that still doesn't make them feel safe, so they do more of it." But it's more involved than that.
What? Murdoch hates Trump and Fox does also, though they are stuck out on the right just praying someone like Romney appears to save them every cycle.
@@meghan42 err ehh 'George Sorrows ' 🤭
The MAGA movement more resembles religion than anything else. The persistence of MAGA support/belief in the face of contradictory evidence is similar to the persistence of religious “belief”.
Hence the evangelicals lov tRump and HATE the rest of us.
It's a cult of autoritarianism, just as any other before it. Only difference is the psychological omnipresence of post-truth populism (also neo-fascism) it's based on, after Dugin.
cult is the word
I live with a cult member and they do NOT believe in religion of any kind. The real problem is that they have the same personality disorders as trump their cult leader who gives them permission to be their worst.
Oh MAGA is a total cult. Fits all the criteria.
Even worse is trying to understand how your own relatives swoon over Trump and hang on his every word. They all think I’ve gone crazy because I can’t perceive how amazingly attractive and righteous he is.
they see the abyss on the other side- which they are right + people love being able to have someone to blame and he offers that in spades. yes dt is a bad choice but progressives themselves do this in spades- this idea that progressives have something better to offer is laughable in thought and criminal in practice
@@TimGeorge-dp7wb The abyss on the other side? What "other side" is that Tim? Like they have in western Europe? That abyss? You know, where all the world's happiest countries are? You're one of those guys who has never left his own country and likely never even left his own state. This would explain your ignorance.
But politics isn't really the point here. Trump is not a political creature: his "politics" can be summed up as "what's in this for me", and he is single- and simple-minded about it.
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Take a good and long gander at the picture behind this author being interviewed. Do you know who it is? Do you know how many bodies lie in his wake? That ideology?
@@TimGeorge-dp7wbBollocks! Have you ever lived or been to an authoritarian country? That is what Trump and his cronies want. Religious, truthful, honest, chaste, fair, Trump is the opposite of these character traits. Wake up to yourself, this man is a monster.
@@tommymorrison6478 Yes, well said! Thank you. 😊
Well, if you look behind the clown and just look at the policy results it's pretty straight forward republican stuff. *Lower taxes especially on the rich, less regulations, anti-abortion, social conservatism and a record number of lunatic judges.*
So I don't find it hard to believe that every republican in the country, that doesn't care about decency, morals, etiquette or international reputation... will gladly vote for him purely out of self interest.
Does the Trump campaign know you're in the toilet right now?
The inane logical fallacies of a leftist in their echo chamber....your projection is showing;-)
Exactly. And anyone who is convinced the other side doesn't have any morals either has an even easier time voting for T. Which is why that's always the his talking point. But self-interest is so key. He promises Musk a seat in government, and he's immediately on board. Most of his "allies" are rewarded by him enough to make it worth it. Later to regret it because it always ends in betrayal, but when you're under his spell and convinced that he's "the one" no one else matters, because it's self-interest, not to do with anyone else.
1 million dead americans... is that pretty straight forward republican stuff? eh probably
SALTYDECKHAND. So tell me about this international reputation. You mean the reputation that sleepy joe greatly maintained for the last 4 years, and now dingbat is maintaining.
This says more about Malcolm Gladwell than it does about Donald Trump.
Clearly critical thinking is a challenge for you...
I know of another Murphy who (like you) ain't the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer.
@@thbadmin7751 you do realise your underlining his point with that comment dont you? who we criticise is ALWAYS about us as people, regardless of who they are.
" But if you go carryin' pictures of chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make with anyone anyhow! "
John Lennon
It does. Maybe he should explain why there are still people who in the 21st century still defend marxism.
Our notion of how and why democracy is the best system is based on the worthy idea that we act with good intent, except for a few malign actors. Unfortunately, our thoughts and actions are not always steered by rationality and logic but more by habit, emotion, tribal loyalty, family pressures, shortsightedness, etc. This helps to explain how an individual like Donald Trump or a small group can exploit the fundamental shortcomings of human nature for their ends.
I'm more of the opinion that a growing number of malign actors has over the years figured out precisely what the weak points of democracy are, and how best to exploit them. A big part in what goes on in the usa is the existence of so called "news" networks like fox etc which are uninhibitedly spreading lies to their viewers in the interest of manipulating their voting.
Even the more neutral networks have mostly given up on fact checking the massive flood of lies being put out daily by the republican party and their nominee.
Every network which claims to serve news should be obliged to have some independent fact checking being run on their news segment, which either would be shown while those news are served or on screen during the next news serving.
i agree with everything you just said but find it laughable that the progressives/alternative run entirely on emotion/hyperbole and just as many lies. we are in a world with 2 sides behaving exactly the same and trying to hold some moral high ground
@@TimGeorge-dp7wb That is the typical rightwing talking point of saying "Yeah we lie as lot, but hey so do they" which is just another lie. Do centre or left wing oriented people never lie? Nope, but they certainly do not lie with the same frequency as the right wing in the usa currently does.
@@TimGeorge-dp7wb Ah yes. Both sides are actively conspiring to rig elections. Both sides are involved in criminal conspiracies to defraud voters. Both sides are campaigning on taking away basic human rights. Both sides want to defund public schools and deny climate change. Oh wait. That's just Trump and Republicans.
Democracy is the best system because it is best at spreading power throughout society.
Old Soviet joke: What's a historian? It's someone who can predict the past.
I look at the early voting in Pennsylvania, and it's breaking democrat, almost 3:1. Gives me hope.
Don't they count these votes at the same time as day voters
@@GeoffV-k1h He's probably referring to exit polls.
The party affiliation data is reported but not the actual vote. The vote tally starts on Election Day in PA. Historically, more Democrats tend to vote early.
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Yeah, remember Hillary in 2016 and how her poll numbers looked - early voting and all? You can't trust that stuff.
Basically it is this ;
his supporters: Trump is my guy. Nothing else matters
It's freakin bananas
Its a bit like when a mother in law takes her abusive son in law's side, over her beaten up daughter. That kind of insane dynamic. Bullies admire bullies.
Biden was too old. Trump is just as old... doesn't matter 😅
@@TAWD7890 Biden has dementia; Trump doesn't.
@@Plethoralityyou mean like Kamala is taking Dougs side after his Cannes indiscretion??
Coming from a vote blue no matter who cult member.
Gladwell is king of the midwits. The people on both extremes know exactly what’s up and why he’s ahead.
Yes, but I'd go farther. Almost anyone that isn't over-thinking chronically can feel why people feel they way that they feel. He talks and thinks too much.
@@matthewhammer2191 yet u dn't show what u perceive. Nuff said. Ya got nuthin, no conclusion no useful info for anyone but yourself? lol
@@18_rabbit That's super ironic...you're asking them to give you a hand up out of the hole that you won't admit you're in.
@@18_rabbit let me summarize my advice to overthinking, over-talking gladwell, and others like him: stop overthinking and feel feelings.
@@matthewhammer2191 Facts over feelings
Hi Melcolm, if you really don't understand, perhaps you should use this as "great mystery" to investigate in your next book. As I'm writing this comnent, Trump won the election by a landslide, the Senate majority turned red, as most elected Goveners, and almost certailly the house too.
As an outsider (I'm an Israeli Jew), but not without skin in the game, let me suggest few points as thought fodder:
1. Due to social media influence, the left had lost his total grip on the media, which most public now recognize as manipulting, lying bunch in the service of the woke left. The established press and media had completely lost its raison d'être, as guard dog for the people from the government, and become loudspeaker propaganda for the government, touting values, which most American detest.
2. What is now touted as "liberalism" by the center left would be totaly unreconizable as such by them (and nearly everybody else) up to the mid ninties, and even by early 2000's it was the regarded as a fringe academic culture.
Who in the world would take the opinions of a person with a screen of Mao on the wall as anything more than a joke?
Lots of us. Why so superficial?
Gladwell is popular among middle management types.....to them he's a genius.
That picture behind him tells you everything about what these people want to do to you.
… and they think it’s funny
@@nobodynever7884 Dressed in his signature grey suit and gently smirking, the murderous Chinese dictator hovers menacingly over the 57-year-old’s right shoulder.
Malcolm finds the poster hilarious, explaining that he bought it at a garage sale 15 years ago and rediscovered it in a cupboard recently.
“I thought how fun it would be, while transacting business at my desk, to have Mao visible over my shoulder,” he explains. “The idea of having this truly despicable tyrant reminding me of the importance of being human while I work - I thought that was good.”
You should spend more time trying to understand what you fear instead of just fearing it irrationally.
You are more worried about the implied or not message the poster in the back gives but NOT bothered at all from the actually real speech and actions from a fascist criminal conman. That says a lot more about you and the rest of the maga cult than some poster does about him or us
@@hanumaniam Conservatives are incapable of understanding irony.
So....that portrait of Mao...kinda wanna ask some questions
Super interesting interview of a really great, really intelligent, really thoughtful and insightful guy. Thank you so much...
I can explain it, it's the stupidity and gullibility of the American voter.
i can too.. blatant racism and stupidity !!
An America man said years ago he could shoot someone and still be elected president. He now could once again hold the US executive office. Were he assume that role while a legally imprisoned convict would hardly matter to those who support him.
Yep I said that years ago. Now I would say it about all people in high places. It has nothing to do with the people supporting them. It is about they don't have to play by the same rules as the average person. Open your damn eyes. Because they haven't been open for the last few years.
What part of corporatists controlling both parties and conducting a genocide does he not understand?
So we should just throw up our ands and do nothing but whine about how helpless we are? Or maybe we could do small things that would move us in a direction where corporatists won't control both parties? They are only human beings, after all; they aren't special.
Considering monocultures. . . It’s an interesting and distressing situation where I live in south western France near Narbonne. . .we’ve been in a stubborn drought for the last three years. . .and now, after the end of yet another disastrous fall harvest, winegrowers, almost universally, find themselves on the edge of bankruptcy. This concerns practically EVERYONE who lives here and has begun to touch the ENTIRE populace! Generous government support over the generations has enticed everyone here to make wine and ignore all other agricultural options. Without heavy, continuous rains soon the future looks grim for this whole region. . .
I so agree about the perils of monoculture! That's why we had the Irish potato famine.
Some growers in the California wine region are planting varieties that need less water, are resilient to drought. I realize this is not a solution, but it could help people in the meantime. Best solution would be to diversify, to grow various things.
To say that holocaust survivors not talking about it is "extraordinary" is ludicrous😮 it is completely normal. My father and my uncle were WW2 vets. Several of our neighbors were vets. I have many acquaintances that a Vietnam vets. None of them like to talk about it😮. I am a non combat veteran Vietnam vet and I don't talk about it it!!!!!
But they're not holocaust "survivors", are they. They may have seen a bit of it, but they didn't live through it. I knew a holocaust survivor, he talked about it all the time, he developed a talking tour of schools where he would describe what it was like to be the only survivor of an extended European Jewish family.
@@petergaskin1811 I'm talking about the ones that lived through it. He specifically said that they did not talk about it until the seventies. He used the word "extraordinary.". Same as war veterans 😯.
Remember the documentary by Claude Lanzmann, Shoah? 1980's. A stunning investigation into "secrets" that societies chose to forget.
Malcolm is the ultimate example of the wilting progressive.
Mao?
The sad thing is Trump couldn't remember the items from his dementia evaluation; he just described the things he saw at the time in that TV interview: the person sitting in front of him, the woman and man off camera, the camera and the TV monitor.
also he mentioned a whale...? The creator of the test said...NO WHALE on the test...
And that was from 6 years ago.
My wife, now diagnosed as suffering from Alzheimer's, has gone from a vibrant fully functioning human being to a shadow, a ghost, of her former self in ONE year.
@@petergaskin1811 My favorite Donald dementia quotes were the ones praising Victor Orban, the president of Hungary (another wannabe dictator)
Said Orban was "the president of Turkey, which has a border with Russia".
Next rally, he went "president of Hungary, which has a border with Russia."
No, it doesn't.
Lost all respect for Gladwell from this interview.
Never underestimate the idiocy of the lower half of the bell curve 🫤
Never be certain you know which part of the bell curve you're on!
@@sundayoliver3147 Unless you've done all the tests 😜
Intellectuals may often be slow to notice the barbarians at the gates... it's so foreign to their notions of risk & reward
Which is why cheating on voting is just never seen in the progressive side of politics, but the idea never leaves the lips of the regressive side. Absolutely all of the multiple voters are indeed Republicans, the party that insists that the Democrats are doing this non-stop. Weird eh!
Trump wouldn't pass a police clearance in Australia, AND MAGA Americans want to elect him as their president? What?
He did a great job in his first term, what are you babbling about?
Australia, the country that infamously rebuked science and took away their citizen's freedoms is in no place to be lecturing America about their arbitrary police clearance. When Trump becomes president again and wants to visit the abomination known as Australia, they will roll the red carpet before they consider handcuffs.
Australia's entire government is a complete joke. Hush.
He did not. Can you actually say that his handling of COVID was good? And he’s the only President in history to leave office with fewer jobs than when he came in. (And that’s the NON-COVID losses.)
Many countries do not allow convicted felons to visit or vote in their countries.@@timothy790110
Love and appreciate Malcolm’s reporting/podcasts and all the great work he’s done. That said, to the uninformed, and those who lean towards MAGA, who might watch this video, seeing a picture of Chairman Mao hanging on the wall behind him, is not a great idea, and will probably be misconstrued.
Yes, a number of people have commented. It's up there for a perfectly reasonable, Malcolm Gladwell reason, but the optics are...not good.
@@jamesellison4575 Odd that he doesn't think about the optics, given that cultural awareness is kind of his gig.
Well what is the correct way to construe it? (That's a sincere question, by the way.)
“A handful of malign actors.”
Gladwell is always insightful.
you'd think you'd have to clearly swear to abide by the election results to be allowed to run for office. ...but trump already says he'll 'never concede' - should be disqualifying.
Mr Gladwell certainly makes the list of people I'd like to have a beer with.
I’d like to have a beer with ‘Malc’ too - but I’d prefer to have a beer with Douglas Murray
RFK is a guy I'd like to have a bear with.
Why does he have a poster of Mao Zedung proudly displayed on his wall?
I’ll guess he has a picture of Karl Marx on the other side of the window.
I came here to ask this.
Who cares? Look at what is written on his shirt. 😉
Yeah, Mao Zedong is no one to be admired. We didn’t call him ‘Mad Dog Mao’ for nothing. Mao was an autocratic, totalitarian dictator. His policies were responsible for a vast number of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions.
Karl Marx on the other hand is unfairly vilified when he himself would have been appalled at how Lenin and Stalin appropriated and barstardized the terms socialism and communism. The term ‘socialism’ comes from the root word ‘social’ meaning: needing companionship and therefore best suited to living in communities.
"we are social beings as well as individuals". The term ‘communism’ comes from the root word ‘commune’ meaning: a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities. The terms ‘communism’ and ‘socialism’ are misnomers.
Marx should not be maligned. Marx was a humanist that focused his attention on the exploitation of the poor working class under the tyrannical repression imposed by the capitalist ruling class. There’s NO such thing as Marxist-Leninism, it was Leninism and then Stalinism, and in China Maoism. They were all authoritarian dictatorships.
I would assume Mr G finds him a curious character.
I can not begin to grasp the level of cruelty and ignorance required to still support Donald Trump and his MAGA hypocrites.
Yes
As Hassan Piker said. " republicans are all about cruelty, democrats are all about virtue signaling ".
Remind me again what happened to all that money in FEMA was used for again?
@Delpix722 An in-depth study on basic sentence structure would make your comment more easily understood. If you are referring to the money that is going to where it has been designated to go, that answers your question.
@@BaffledB Well the people living outside of the blue bubble know a good amount did not go to hurricane victims. Regardless of sentence structure.
The portrait of Chairman Mao behind Gladwell is instructive.
What did it instruct you to do?
A sequel after 25 years.
I think you may find George R. R. Martin is out to surpass that particular record.
Wonderful interview with the fascinating and always engaging Malcom Gladwell.
I noticed this when the world learned for a second time about Michael Jackson. The first time it was "just" in the news, but the second time it stuck, because it came in the format of a tv miniseries
In the UK there has been a long-running scandal about a disgracefully flawed piece of software used by the Post Office which caused hundreds of sub-postmasters to be bankrupted and imprisoned. The flaws were known about for decades and multiple journalistic outlets followed up on this and never let go of it (pat on the back for "Computer Weekly" and "Private Eye"). The Government's response recently was - "it'll have to go through the Appeal Courts, there's nothing we can do". Cue a TV mini-series, and all that changed overnight.
He's a low-T fellow. Thus his sensibilities are off.
Re: picture of Mao behind Gladwell: He bought it at a garage sale and has said that the poster serves as a reminder that life is complicated and that humans are not always clear. He also said that it's a good corrective if he ever gets on his high horse.
Until Trump I thought having a poster of Mao was a "never here" bit of interest...but then ReTHUGliKKKons made Trump the MAD KING and the unfunny jester of Hate and Malice.
If Mao Zedong were running for president in the US this election, I would vote for either of the 2 front runners first.
I wondered about that poster. Good comment.
Nah, people put up posters of things they admire. It’s that simple.
@@michaelangeloevans2722 Jordan Peterson has a portrait of Lenin in his house. Does that mean that Peterson is a communist?
The reason 45 was nominated in 2024 is because we are the United States of Adolescents. Respecfully and Gratefully yours Gregg Oreo Long Beach CA États Unis
this was in a marketing book 20 yrs ago. Nothing new. There was an entire chapter on how Americans see their leaders…. and if you check off all the boxes you pretty much get Trump. And no matter how much name calling these “intellectuals” resort to to try to explain it, it only shows how out of touch they are with the country as a whole or what actually drives people.
There is a plausible story about Trump's popularity at "msnbc anti shame ritual". This claims there are four steps for Trump to increment his popularity: 1. Trump says something transgressive. 2. Many people shame him. 3. Trump says that I stand for all of you. 4. Trump angrily attacks the people who were shaming him. People who previously felt shame now feel anger, if they choose to identify with Trump. Anger feels better than shame, so that is an improvement.
why does he have a giant mao zedong poster..
Total inability to understand half the country.
Well, he's Canadian for one, and sitting in front of a Mao Zedong poster.
Is that Chairman Mao framed on the wall behind him?
Could it be Oskar Schindler that Spielberg made a movie about in 1993?
He was a German business man and helped many Jews.
Did he intend to look like a Maoist with that red framed portrait?
🇨🇦 As a fellow Canadian, and one who has read The Tipping Point, I admire Malcolm’s work. I enjoyed seeing his classic Roots’ shirt. 😊 ( Pretty sure it’s a Roots.)
Now, I am curious as to why there was a huge photo of Mao over his shoulder, I’m sure there’s a good reason and would like to hear it.
Re: the Holocaust. That explains how a show like Hogan's Heroes (a comedy at that) could succeed in the US and Canada during the 1960s.
The hardest part about not understanding Trump's appeal is explaining to your dad why you're gay.
So, Malcolm, as someone who has casually justified the seizure of rights from people based on a disease with a less than 2% fatality rate, and physical and social segregation, based purely on non-conforming behavior, I will no longer be recommending your books, or you.
Thank you for your honesty.
Agreed. I also recommend watching his Munk debate with Murray & Taibbi.
13:35 - Pretty sure you're talking about Oskar Schindler, the protagonist of Spielberg's "Schindler's List," a German businessman who saved the lives of over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
I saw the tv mini series the Holocaust. I was 10 or 11. A total horror show. That and Roots were psychologically disturbing on way too many levels.
Escape from Sobivor, Tenko and Roots were the historic dramas which left a lasting impression from my childhood, late 70's early 80's.
John Amos - older Kunta Kinte, died a few days ago.
I wasn't impressed by the 2016 remake.
@@James-n2t4w When he got his foot chopped off! I was like “what kind of people are we?”. Really awful imagery.
Shoah was heartbreaking.
It's not that difficult to explain if you assume a massive mental health and education crisis in the country. Which impacts our understanding of ourselves and external events.
Malcom said there were no structural issues at play with oxycodone launching the opioid epidemic. That is false.
One structural issue is that under our current social economic system, the qualities of ruthlessness and greed are lavishly rewarded. That is structural, also cultural.
Another structural issue at play was that Purdue Pharmaceutical was one company, but it had massive influence and reach in the medical field; antitrust legislation could limit this.
Another structural issue was the revolving door/porous nature of the relationship between the FDA and pharmaceutical companies.
This is fairly basic stuff that it is surprising Malcolm Gladwell could not perceive. I think it is rooted in orthodox capitalist bias.
All good points, and I agree: it's like not seeing the air you breathe. You're so used to it, you assume it's some elemental thing that has always existed. Surprising, since he's so insightful in other ways. I appreciate your bringing this up, because there's something about Gladwell's writing that's always just-- not reached me. Felt off.
iMPORTANT POINTS!!!
i dn' t see that. Really feels like so many of us such as you are not willing or maybe able to see complex systems interactions. I'm a liberal, very very liberal in most ways who studied a bit about policy when studying international affairs. U r right about american culture of ruthlessness and greed, but there were curbs culturally too. But i do agree generally. But it takes culture to shift that, including via law and the enforcement of law.
Is that a picture of Mao behind him ? 😂
Thanks for the amazing interview. I have been an avid reader all my life, but Malcom's books have been the ones I read again and again. He is such a great writer, and I am thrilled to read the latest.
If you love his books…go watch him exercise that wit in debate. The Monk Debates, for example.
@@CyndeLooWho I had no idea. Thanks so much ❤️
Dude has a mao tzedon portrait😂
Perhaps the Trump phenomenon is simply a result of frustration. A substantial number of people feel like they've tried to do the right thing and are just sick of trying and getting no results. I think of the line in "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" "I haven't had a day off in over a year." So they give up and go totally selfish. Short-sighted, to be sure, but feeling like they're looking out for themselves.
I think they mostly live in what are known, colloquially, as "flyover states".
@@petergaskin1811 I think the idea of "flyover states" is part of what created this problem.
Malcom, what are we ever going to do? Is he going to sell us to russia? How did this happen?
Oh dear Gladwell... you're making the same mistake as the Monk debate: not listening and assuming everyone thinks like you and if they don't, they should!
The Potemkin lawsuits resulting in "convicted felon" are very interesting and instructive. I wonder if Hillary, or Comey, or the many others will be similarly gleeful with their convictions if an alternative administration came to power and similarly prosecuted them? The executive branch has deployed so many extra ordinary powers which seem to be contrary to the constitution, creating a precedent that now terrifies the people who used those powers for nefarious purposes. It's almost as if they could never conceive of a situation where these extraordinary powers (electronic surveillance) could ever be turned against them? Or when caught red-handed (Hunter's laptop), finding it inconceivable that their gaslighting could be ineffective. Orwellian "that never happened" videos shown side by side with the same person stating the opposite, proving that it indeed occur only a few months before.
Trump has been PROVEN to have a "business career" largely made of FRAUD for DECADES. Perhaps, you culd explore some information OTHER THN tRUMP'S OWN self-SERVING WORDS.
Yes. It IS astonishing. How so many follow trump still is shocking.
Well, most of those who feel that way belong to the upper 10% in terms of wealth. See, that group isn’t particularly bothered by inflation so they have time to worry about some ridiculous NY charges that took more than two years for prosecutors to mangle the law enough to get around the statute of limitations before splitting the same charge into 34 separate pieces (something specifically forbidden by the prosecutors oath).
It’s quite sad how delusional half of the country has become (and a large chunk of Canada, apparently).
Well the good news is half the country may be following Trump, but the Dems control 70% of the wealth, and most of the institutions. So, really, uncork a bottle...
@@CyndeLooWho Coming from a blind blue cult member, where the establishment gave them their puppet. We all know the establishment cares about the average person.
I have to push back on Gladwell’s assertion that the Holocaust wasn’t presented in media until the 80s.
He and I are about the same age, he grew up in Toronto and I several hours north of Toronto, straight up highway 11.
In the late 60s I saw on CBC videos of bodies being bulldozed and thrown into mass graves. To time stamp this is when I saw on television Gordon Lightfoot’s “Black Day in July” video… not called video back then… about the riots in the 60s. I was 7 or 8 when I saw both on television. These images have never left me. Gladwell perhaps missed these tv episodes when he was a child, they were horrible to watch. They seemed unreal to as a kid growing up in northern Ontario. But for Gladwell to claim the holocaust wasn’t on media until much later, I beg to differ. The CBC did so in the late 60s.
We saw this in England in cinemas in the late 40s early 50s, courtesy of Lord Liverpool.
Yes, I've been familiar with the Holocaust since childhood (60s); I assumed I was taught this in school (in Canada), since I wouldn't have gone seeking the information out myself. I preferred to believe humanity was, you know, humane.
@@jamesellison4575 Well put. Me too. I would have been 6 or 7 back then. The images were perplexing and unforgettable.
I knew about the Holocaust growing up in the US in the 1960s as well. I can't remember how, but between growing up in a bookish family with shelves full of books in the house, whose parents were in WWII, and whose neighbors were Holocaust survivors (plus the many friends who grandparents came over to escape the pogroms), of course I knew about it. There was and is plenty of reading material on it, I was well aware of it by at least age 11. And yes, there were jokes about Nazis on TV, in skits and shows-- I think that was one way of distancing ourselves from it, saying it could never happen again. Though, sadly...
Brilliant interview, and proof that immigration is vital to the health of a society.
There is no change bc there is no vision of the future. As Mark Fisher and Timothy Snyder have pointed out.
Check out Gladwell’s completely embarrassing performance in the Munk debates.. he was a shallow superficial debater
The film Idiocracy sums it up well
That is Mao. But why?
The reason nothing changes for Trump supporters is like religion, when you believe something for a long time, it is difficult to admit having been wrong for such a long time. Slava Ukraini!
If Trump was ‘wrong’ as you put it, then Trump would have lost against Hilary in 2016. However, he was elected president that year.
Thus proving Trump was in the right, just like all previous presidents in the past (except Woodrow Wilson).
@@Delpix722 Trump lost the majority vote. Russia interfered with the US election by pushing fake news, like you and your fellow trolls, into the mass media stream. You are still wrong, and will not admit it. Slava Ukraini!
The demoncratics being soooo bad is why Trump is still around.
You just described the blue culy.
Why don't you fly your own flag instead of supporting a social construct led by a comedian stooge?
Title; “Completely Speechless…” -speaks for 20min 🙄
I’m really enjoying listening to the new book. I was really hoping the next book would be after trump is gone, explaining maga!
Is Malcolm a big fan of Mao? A big portrait of Mao on the wall behind him. What a surprise!
As a centrist - I find it shocking the lack of intellectual curiosity to explain why Trump is popular. It is very easy to understand (even if you don’t agree) if you get out of your bubble.
Bingo, plus Trump doesn't exist in a vacuum. He's obviously going to be judged against the person he's running against (read: vapid and incompetent puppet).
But I thought popular orange man bad, divine intervention giving us blue puppet good. It saved people from having to vote in a primary.
100% agreed. Im not a fan of Trump, specifically because he is NOT a fiscally responsible conservative. But to not be able to see why people are fed up with a party that is completely authoritarian (see what they did to Sanders) is absolutely being in a bubble.
@@nobodynever7884 "completely authoritarian," what "they" did to Sanders, etc. is the kind of excess hyperbole that has paranoid thinking at its root. If you understood the full spectrum of voter opinion within the party perhaps you'd realize that the progressive wing's darling Sanders didn't get the nomination because he was not preferred by Democrat moderates.
My explanation of the Trump phenomen is that he is actually a hologram.
I'm completely speechless that anyone thinks Malcolm Gladwell is a good writer
I can explain Trump's impact on American politics...the country has lost its freaking mind!
Great interview by the way. Gladwell is one of the best.
Gladwell you are an embarrassment to all Canadians
That's a bit mean. I don't always agree with him, but he's articulate, thoughtful and curious. And he made it as a writer in the Big Apple, which is a big accomplishment for a guy from small town Ontario. It's not surprising that Gladwell has a lot of fans in Canada.
@@roberthanks1636he has a picture behind him of a man responsible for the deaths of 60 million people and the torture and incarceration of many more. No words are mean enough for a man who praises that type of character.
@@nobodynever7884 It's an odd choice, to be sure, but it is not proof that Gladwell venerates Mao. Some people collect propaganda posters as a type of art or as historical artifacts. Jordan Peterson has a large portrait of Lenin in his house, but I'm pretty certain that Peterson is not a communist. I would judge Gladwell by his books and essays.
Dressed in his signature grey suit and gently smirking, the murderous Chinese dictator hovers menacingly over the 57-year-old’s right shoulder.
Malcolm finds the poster hilarious, explaining that he bought it at a garage sale 15 years ago and rediscovered it in a cupboard recently.
“I thought how fun it would be, while transacting business at my desk, to have Mao visible over my shoulder,” he explains. “The idea of having this truly despicable tyrant reminding me of the importance of being human while I work - I thought that was good.”
I think he means Nicky Winton. He was known before the 80s. Incredible man and story. Died just a few years ago, lived past 100 I believe.
"Poplar Grove" might be Palo Alto, Calif. A few years ago there were quite a few articles about the suicide epidemic among its highschoolers.
Might thoughts as well. Palo Alto and Gunn high schools saw a large number of suicides, often via Caltrain tracks. And Palo Alto is tall trees in Spanish, hence "grove "
I had an uncle who fought in the Pacific during WW2. When he got home he married, started a business and raised two kids. His son told me numerous times that his dad never spoke about his experiences in the war. I found out later this was quite common. My point is that whatever prompts Holocaust survivors to demur from conversation re their experiences maybe remarkably similiar to a great many that survived being on the line.
Smart man, Gladwell. Suffers from TDS. So sad.
I love the idea of a good intelligent writer writing a 'sequel' after about 15+years... A fabulous way to revisit ideas, experiences and reflect on the way the world has changed.
Lots of Americans wonder why he still so popular. We don’t like him either
A lot of Americans are drowning in propaganda. And that is just what the establishment wants.
Malcolm is saying he “can’t explain” when asked about Trump, is BS. I believe he thinks if he says anything about Trump - will affect his book sales.
Maybe it's because those who speak out become targets of domestic terrorism. Mike Pence and some judges could tell you more.
Thank you !!
MAO poster behind him