📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/3Qdkd5y Slavoj’s latest book, Zero Point, is out now in paperback: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/zero-point-9781350537842/ UnHerd's Flo Read meets Slavoj Žižek. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/trump-is-a-liberal-fetish/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Dubbed “the most dangerous philosopher in the West”, Slovenian psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek has singlehandedly led a revolution in punk political theory. Now, in the shadow of Donald Trump 2.0, he asks why democracy fails, sex sells and how rock bottom could be the best place to start. Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv // TIMECODES // 00:00 - 12:28 - Elon Musk and the age of shamelessness 12:28 - 36:26 - Perversions in politics: What the Right stole from the Left 36:26 - 48:06 - Trump as a fetish 48:06 - 1:17:36 - Q&A #UnHerd #SlavojZizek #Trump