Today’s guest is\u00a0Martin Gurri<\/a>, a former CIA analyst who is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center and a columnist for\u00a0The Free Press<\/em><\/a>. A decade ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring and various “color” revolutions<\/a>\u00a0around the world, Gurri published\u00a0The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium<\/a><\/em>, which analyzed how social media empowered ordinary people to resist control from above and anticipated the rise of Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Brexit.<\/p>\n

Reason<\/em>‘s Nick Gillespie spoke with Gurri shortly after the 2024 election at The Reason<\/em> Speakeasy<\/a>, a monthly, unscripted conversation in New York City with outspoken defenders of free thinking and heterodoxy in an age of intellectual conformity and groupthink. (Go here<\/a> for information on Reason<\/em> events.) They talked about why Gurri voted for Trump<\/a>\u00a0and why he’s cautiously optimistic about the next four years.<\/p>\n

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0:00- Introduction<\/p>\n

1:13- Why Gurri voted for Trump<\/p>\n

4:46- Trump vs. Harris: Chaos vs. Control<\/p>\n

8:40- Trump’s first term 11:04- Trump’s new coalition<\/p>\n

14:33- Is authoritarianism coming to America<\/p>\n

19:00- Attention, Populism & Wild Hair<\/p>\n

20:42- Colossal transformation awaits us<\/p>\n

34:05- Creating communities of meaning in the digital age<\/p>\n

36:22- The transformations enabled by the printing press<\/p>\n

38:41- More chaos is coming 43:11- Lessons from Cuba<\/p>\n

48:40- Arab Spring and the spark that overthrows a regime<\/p>\n

50:37- Short term pessimistic, long term optimistic<\/p>\n

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