The 2024 Elections

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo give a preview of ARI’s 2024 presidential election coverage and comment on some of the major political issues at stake in the election.

Among the topics covered:
● How ARI uses Objectivism to analyze elections and the wider political culture;
● What the Trump phenomenon says about the state of our political culture;
● The unprincipled nature of the political responses to recent domestic and foreign crises;
● Symptoms of growing political tribalism, such as people’s increasing willingness to protest;
● How bipartisan attacks on tech companies reveal a deeper turn against producers.

Mentioned in this podcast is Onkar Ghate’s New Ideal article “One Small Step for Dictatorship." (https://newideal.aynrand.org/one-smal...)

The podcast was recorded on April 11, 2024.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:21 Using Objectivism to analyze politics
0:10:34 The Trump phenomenon
0:16:18 Lack of principles in political responses to crises
0:25:13 Growing political tribalism
0:29:22 Bipartisan turn against producers