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292 - Jason Stanley: Breaking Down Trump’s Propaganda

292 - Jason Stanley: Breaking Down Trump’s Propaganda

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Jason Stanley is the Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair in American
Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of
Philosophy. Before moving to Toronto in 2025, he was the Jacob
Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Jason’s work
focuses on propaganda, authoritarianism, democracy, free speech,
and political language. In this episode, Robinson and Jason
discuss Jason’s account of how political propaganda has changed
during the Trump era. More particularly, they talk about soft and
hard propaganda, social media and political bots, Trump’s
political communication, Jason’s decision to leave Twitter and
later the United States, and the effects of online attacks. They
also discuss artificial intelligence and democracy, the political
influence of tech billionaires, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, and
Jason’s transition toward the philosophy of propaganda. Jason’s
most recent book is Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the
Past to Control the Future (Atria/One Signal, 2024).

Jason’s Website: https://jasonstanley.org

How Propaganda Works:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jason+Stanley+How+Propaganda+Works

Erasing History:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jason+Stanley+Erasing+History

OUTLINE

00:00 How Propaganda Has Changed with Donald Trump

10:42 Soft and Hard Propaganda

13:56 Defining Propaganda

25:01 Is Trump Trying to Broaden Popular Support?

30:12 Trump Is Ruining Democracy

33:15 Social Media is Political Theater for BOTS

45:39 Why Jason Left Twitter

49:54 Attacks Against Jason on Twitter

53:20 The Terrible Cost of Leaving the US

01:04:56 How AI Threatens Democracy

01:08:26 Tech Billionaires Want to Wipe Out Humanity

01:12:02 Elon Musk's Secret Plans

01:14:30 Does Peter Thiel Want All Humans Dead?

01:17:37 Jason's Transition to Philosophy of Propaganda

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University, where he is also a JD
candidate in the Law School.