The Coming Storm
By BBC Radio 4
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Nov 27, 2023
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Description
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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Send us your questions! Live Q&A
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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S2: 8. The Last Election…?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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S2: 7. Wonderland
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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S2: 6. Kompromat
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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S2: 5. The Photocopier
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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S2: 4. The Jump
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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S2: 3. The Enemy Within
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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S2: 2. Flight 007
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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S2: 1. The Yogi
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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S2: Welcome back to The Coming Storm
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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S1: The Louis Theroux Interview
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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S1: The Mid-Terms 2. The Regime
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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S1: The Mid-Terms 1. Groomers
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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S1: 8. Epilogue
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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S1: 7. Welcome to the Future
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: 6. The Usual Suspects
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: 5. Blowback
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: 4. Q Drops
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: 3. The Basement
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: 2. Sex, Lies, and… a Videotape
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: 1. The Dead Body
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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S1: Welcome to The Coming Storm
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Dec 20, 2021 |