On Trumpworld: Vance in Munich; Musk in South Africa.
[This contains only the interview on South Africa – for the full episode subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast]
Alex, George and Ryan Zickgraf round up events in Germany: first the elections, then US Vice-President JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference where he called out Western elites' hypocrisy on liberalism and democracy.
Then Alex speaks to Will Shoki, editor at Africa Is A Country, about what Musk wants from South Africa, why the global radical right has fixated on land reform in South Africa, and what is really at stake for South Africans.
We round out by taking your questions and comments – and by welcoming in carnival by discussing drinking & socialising, and its anti-social enemies.
Running Order


00:03:10 – German elections


00:08:20 – Vance's Munich speech


00:26:00 – Will Shoki on South African politics


01:04:55 – Musk and the global radical right


01:13:20 – Letters to the Editors


01:23:10 – Carnival and social drinking


Links:


Trump’s Tool: The Limits of Bannon’s Postmodern Nationalism, Alex Gourevitch, The Northern Star


Make Afrikaners great again! National populism, democracy and the new white minority politics in post- apartheid South Africa, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Ethnic and Racial Studies 


Why Trump loves corrupt Democrats, Ryan Zickgraf, UnHerd


The Case for Social Drinking, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin


The Hangover and Life as a Commodity, George Hoare, Damage


Segregation Is Still Alive in Mardi Gras’s Birthplace, Ryan Zickgraf, Jacobin

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