1Dime Radio The Right After Trump (Ft. Benjamin Teitelbaum)
May 8, 2026
Benjamin Teitelbaum, an ethnographer and professor of musicology and international affairs, explores the shifting landscape of the radical right. He breaks down figures like Steve Bannon and Alexander Dugin. Short takes cover traditionalism, the tech-right, hierarchy, debates over the label “fascism,” Nick Fuentes, and whether a coherent post‑Trump right is forming.
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Deep Hanging Out Reveals Far Right Complexity
- Benjamin Teitelbaum uses long-form ethnography or "deep hanging out" to understand the far right by living with and conversing deeply rather than studying from a distance.
- He argues this method reveals motivations, contradictions, and lived politics that interviews or text analysis alone miss.
Bannon Is A Patchwork Anti-Liberal
- Steve Bannon blends American revolutionary rhetoric with European anti-liberal Traditionalist ideas, producing a conflicted, often inconsistent ideology.
- Teitelbaum sees Bannon as trying to fuse forward-looking Americanism with backward-looking Traditionalism like Evola and Dugin.
Anti‑American Right Sees Liberalism As The Problem
- There exists an anti-American, anti-liberal right (e.g., Alexander Dugin) that views liberalism, capitalism, and emancipation as the problem rather than solutions.
- Bannon sought common ground with that current by reframing Americanism as tribal, Christian, and anti-globalist.
