1/5/18 JP Sottile on the welfare/warfare state and Trump’s presidency

1/5/18 JP Sottile on the welfare/warfare state and Trump’s presidency

JP Sottile, editor of NewsVandal.com , returns to the show to discuss his latest article, “The US Military is the biggest Big Government” entitlement program on the planet.” Sottile argues that the U.S. military has developed constituencies throughout the country by employing millions of Americans and that Donald Trump’s presidential victory was the result of paradoxically promising to grow the military and reducing U.S. intervention around the globe. (Guess which promise he kept.) Sottile then looks at American prospects for the future—whether the fall of the dollar may not come sooner than people expect, Michael Wolff’s new book and the Trump phenomenon, and whether the United States’ hard power approach to the world is being overtaken by the soft power approach of China. Finally Sottile looks forward to the coming 2018 and 2020 elections and explains why he’s optimistic that a true third party might be on the horizon.

JP Sottile is a freelance journalist, published historian, radio co-host and documentary filmmaker. He runs the site NewsVandal.com. Follow him on Twitter @newsvandal and sign up for his email list.

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About Scott Horton

Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He's the author of the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, the 2017 book, Fool's Errand:Time to End the War in Afghanistan, editor of the 2019 book The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 and the 2022 book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 5,800 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Larisa Alexandrovna Horton.

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