Globalist Goblins in the Democratic Machine w/Joe Costello
Once again, I’m in bed with nefarious Russians.
Thanks Yasha and Evgenia
As Yasha writes:
We talk to our friend Joe Costello about Trump’s tariffs, democracy, deindustrialization, the Yeltsinification of America, and the innate human desire for a communal life…
Joe has unique insights into American politics. He’s self-taught and naturally brilliant and has in the past helped run some very big American political campaigns — including the presidential runs of Jerry Brown and Howard Dean. As part of that work, he intersected with Peter Nevarro, a big anti-globalist guy who has been shaping Trump’s tariff blitz against China and who used to be an environmentalist NIMBY in San Diego. If you’ve been following the news, Nevarro has been a constant presence on TV, defending Trump’s tariffs. He’s been dunked on by the business press and also had Elon Musk unloading on him on social media, calling Nevarro a retard, a moron, and “dumber than a sack of bricks”… So Nevarro is a man at the center of global, consensus-shattering events.
We last spoke to Joe about three years ago about his work on the politics of technology. And we highly recommend his new newsletter, where he writes about many of the things we talk about in this ep.
—Yasha
Don’t forget to come to our AGAINST NIHILISM LIVE! event in NYC. This Sunday, April 13th!
Some notes…
Wanted to give some links to a couple of things Joe mentioned in the ep: “The Ages of Jackson” by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. And the just-declassified Schlesinger memo to JFK about the need to get rid of the CIA. And some talks by J. Robert Oppenheimer: Lecture at the Princeton Theological Seminary, Lecture at Colorado University, and one on Analogy and Science.