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The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West

The Far-Right Algorithm: Anti-Churchill, Anti-West

The David Frum Show vor 7 Monaten

Historian Lord Andrew Roberts on why many right-wing podcasters now believe the wrong side won the Second World War, and the rise of algorithmically driven pseudo-historians. Plus: Trump is looking for an off-ramp from his war in Iran, and Gore Vidal’s no

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On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s
David Frum opens with his thoughts on President Trump’s recent
comments that appear to show a desire to back away from his war in
Iran. David argues that Trump is comfortable as a “wartime”
president as long as the enemy is American Democrats, and then he
compares the president’s rhetoric about Iran with his rhetoric
about his fellow Americans. Then, David is joined by the historian
and journalist Lord Andrew Roberts to discuss why right-wing
podcasters seem so fixated on insisting that Winston Churchill was
the villain of the Second World War. Frum and Lord Roberts discuss
the origins of pseudo-historians and why they appeal so much to the
American right. Finally, David ends the episode with a discussion
of the novel “Burr,” by Gore Vidal, and the relationship between
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