Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far?

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.

Trump signs cryptocurrency legislation in July (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here. You can subscribe to, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher, and receive bonus content by supporting the podcast on Patreon.

For our 100th episode back in September 2024, we asked our subscribers to send us questions—which they did, with remarkable thoughtfulness and intelligence. A lot has happened since then, so we wanted to once again open up the mailbag and find out what was on the minds of Know Your Enemy listeners. They sent too many excellent questions for just one episode—so if you like what you hear, consider subscribing on Patreon to listen our next bonus episode when we’ll answer even more.

In this round of questions, we take up how much Trump has kept his campaign promises, our favorite bourbons, the politics of Judaism, St. Augustine and original sin, novelists (gay and straight), and more!

Sources and further reading:

Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories (1945)

— A Single Man (1964)

Don Bachardy, Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood (1990)

Edmund White, City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and ’70s (2009)

— A Boy’s Own Story (1982)

— The Beautiful Room is Empty (1988)

— The Farewell Symphony (1997)

— The Married Man (2000)

Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins (1971)

— Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983)

Henri du Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man (1962)