The Coming Storm

Een podcast door BBC Radio 4 - Woensdagen

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  1. Americast: Why Trump Won (and Why Harris Lost)

    Gepubliceerd: 8-11-2024
  2. S2: 8. The Last Election…?

    Gepubliceerd: 30-10-2024
  3. S2: 7. Wonderland

    Gepubliceerd: 23-10-2024
  4. S2: 6. Kompromat

    Gepubliceerd: 16-10-2024
  5. S2: 5. The Photocopier

    Gepubliceerd: 9-10-2024
  6. S2: 4. The Jump

    Gepubliceerd: 2-10-2024
  7. S2: 3. The Enemy Within

    Gepubliceerd: 25-9-2024
  8. S2: 2. Flight 007

    Gepubliceerd: 18-9-2024
  9. S2: 1. The Yogi

    Gepubliceerd: 18-9-2024
  10. S2: Welcome back to The Coming Storm

    Gepubliceerd: 4-9-2024
  11. Introducing The Gatekeepers

    Gepubliceerd: 7-2-2024
  12. Introducing The Cows Are Mad

    Gepubliceerd: 18-10-2023
  13. Americast – Conspiracies: Inside the Rabbit Hole

    Gepubliceerd: 2-6-2023
  14. Bad People present True Crime Crackers 2022 ft. The Coming Storm

    Gepubliceerd: 21-12-2022
  15. S1: The Louis Theroux Interview

    Gepubliceerd: 17-11-2022
  16. S1: The Mid-Terms 2. The Regime

    Gepubliceerd: 13-11-2022
  17. S1: The Mid-Terms 1. Groomers

    Gepubliceerd: 6-11-2022
  18. S1: 8. Epilogue

    Gepubliceerd: 22-2-2022
  19. S1: 7. Welcome to the Future

    Gepubliceerd: 4-1-2022
  20. S1: 6. The Usual Suspects

    Gepubliceerd: 4-1-2022

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America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.

As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture. Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it? That's the story that Gabriel Gatehouse is investigating in this series of The Coming Storm.

The search for the origins of this story takes Gabriel inside a paranoid political group that tried to build its own Deep State during the Cold War, now back in fashion in the conservative backwaters of western mountain states. Gabriel meets the January 6 rioters running for office who see their detention as political imprisonment in gulags, and the militia men convinced the CIA and FBI are working against the American people. In the background lurk the tech utopian ideologues, using their vast wealth and power to fund conspiracy flavoured content as they work to create sovereign states free of all government control. And online, amateur finance bros foment distrust of government, central banks and giant financial institutions to millions of followers.

What were once fringe ideas have burst into the mainstream. Conspiracy theories have become central planks of Trump's Republican Party, while Democrats run on dark warnings about the end of democracy. With both sides convinced the other is an existential threat, what are the prospects for the survival of the American political system?

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