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After a generational collapse, the various factions of the right find themselves scrambling to pick up the pieces of the wreckage they wroug

After a generational collapse, the various factions of the right find themselves scrambling to pick up the pieces of the wreckage they wrought. They decide to break from the establishment Republican Party to pursue new strategies involving new technologies—one that’s short-term successes would be matched by its long-term consequences.

This episode draws from Lee Fang’s The Machine, Theda Skockpol’s The Tea Party and the Remaking of American Conservatism, Claire Bond Potter’s Political Junkies, Gabriel Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room, and Matthew Lysiak’s The Drudge Revolution. For a full list of sources, check our works cited doc here: www.chapotraphouse.com/seeking

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Aaron Carter

just quit my job to move halfway across the country. told the Christians at the private school that I worked at that I thought the church had been captured by a political institution. strange bedfellows, these republicans and christians

Matthew

The Slop of Christmas Present

Samson Rambler

Best one yet! Breaking up the segments with live audio and music interludes kept me way more engaged! Dude felix ya killing it now

Samson Rambler

When ya introduce a new monster character a very very small interlude helps Solidify who they are and their impact

Evan

Song ID's please

Brian

I can’t believe you didn’t mention Obasketball once

CJ

Ok I gotta come back to this and list the dozens of name variations for Obummer

Nora

AMAZING episode! Fucking thank you! I have been interested in Drudge and the beginning of Coulter, Kavanaugh, etc. since that Monica Lewinksy American Crime Story lol

Andy Kraushaar

Tucker spank us, everyone. Merry CHRISTmas gang.

George Mitri

Absolute KUDOS for “The Old Man’s Back Again” as part of the soundtrack.

Stop the Spread

“As a Black man” I wince every time you call him Obungler… but I can’t argue with it.

Stop the Spread

That’s not even an EIGHTH of his story, lol

Drew

Obloodborne got me

Tedd Staaack

The 30 different riffs on Obama's name are cringe and don't do anything to serve the narrative.

Nora

It is a little more than I knew before 😂 enlighten me if you want !!

OtherRussert

Deep respect for Felix – that is truly a Hercules effort to come up with that many variations for Odrama.

Zen Ben

This is the most substantive Chapo series since Will's 'Poppy' trilogy.

Jason

Audibly laughed in my car to O’bituary

interzoa

It's like a showcase display for our favorite fully inarticulate freak figures. The secret formula of being a cultural outcast and pampered wealthy made these guys an unbeatable avant garde of political propaganda, having both the motivation to try new mediums and the money to cover the initial failures of these ventures. This allows them to hang on long enough to catch the fall of the next general crisis since this mixture is generative of local capital idealism that speaks to the politics of a mental breakdown middle class. When I hear liberals say they need a joe rogan but for their side it gives me the hunch this is the autumn years for this medium's propaganda potential. I mean it's the autumn years in general

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OBedAndBreakfast

Dick Must Bust

No it’s funny you’re just a curmudgeonly buzzkill

B

ObaMAO sent me into orbit

Gonzo

That’s wrong and you should be ashamed

RubbishBinMan

if obioshock didn't make you laugh you're lying

DRV

They made shirts with Obama in a PLA cap

Jaime Christley

The Crowder audio clips made me want to fucking kill myself

Patrick Pinney

Hey so not to be a nit picker but the opening story on Episode 3 of “Seeking a Fren for the End of the World” date is wrong. It was 2014 not 2012. Don’t know where to post this but it’s a pretty glaring error that I think should be fixed if possible.

Ghordo

With the way this narrative is unfolding, when this series ends the last song HAS to be The Doors' "The End"

James Cook

Love that Baquack Obamailure got a shout out. LF forever!

Last Years Man

I lived through this time period, and somehow I never realized Matt Drudge was gay

Liam Sweeney

May be a dumb question but who is the "young angry blogger" speaking at the tea party event? Sounds like Matt Walsh to me but I'm not quite sure

Austun

Hello? n Earth??

Sean Muth

these are so good. Cheers Felix

Zen Ben

Good point. That was an omission. 'Hell on Earth' is the beefiest contribution to the Chapo catalog to date.

Don Friðrik Ólafsson

It's amazing how Steven Crowder manages to conjour up this visceral feeling in me of just primeval disgust

christoph.s

No it is not adumb question, I am pretty sure it was matt walsh.

The Steel Harvest

as I am listening to this the tech-bro populist alliance that reelected trump is crumbling predictably over H1 visas... you can't have a DrudgeReport.com without skilled workers.

etienne

a merry chrysler to you

etienne

mhh yes perfect pairing with 114 "Meat The Press" 2017-06-17 about insane tea party websites

Isaac

I tried to do that but every time you replay the episode all the names are different. Idk how they did it. I’ve been replaying it at 20X speed and at this point I’ve heard 1,000+ different variations of Obarfbag. I can’t even remember Obungler’s real name anymore. On one of the later play throughs I’m pretty sure he was just saying slurs.

Khemith

Crowder is that kid on the playground who threaten everyone with comedy. But when the real homoerotic rodeo comes to town he gets owned by his wife leaking a video of him.

buttface

Why is the tone of this written as though the conservative project was ultimately doomed to fail when they are the ones currently in charge of everything?

Sam

I enjoy the project and applaud it for compiling the history and creating a coherent narrative, but I totally agree with your point here. It’s glaring. I know most of it was done before the election. It would have landed differently if ettinger’s posture would have been validated rather than what actually happened. Which was, quite frankly, embarrassing as fuck.

Chris Ryan

This is the hardest I’ve ever had to concentrate on any Chapo series but it’s also entertaining and great intel, and as a OG swarthyvillain stan I would happily listen to Felix read the Minnesota phone book if that’s what he felt like doing

buttface

have some self respect

Chris Ryan

If you take it as a commentary on the specious ineffectuality of the libs, it’s not really so glaring. I know what you’re saying though

helvetica.hottie

Under My Thumb is my favorite Stones song, but I like getting held down and having my hair pulled.

Matthew Krueger

Clearly neither of you has read "The Secret".

Matthew Krueger

It isn't even close. I hear it in Christman's voice...

That Guy

Holy shit that Basshunter drop.

buttface

Bizarre take- the entire series is specifically about the right wing. But I guess when you would listen to Felix read the phone book it doesn't matter if it makes sense.

T

It's doomed to fail eventually after getting stronger for a while. It's not just going to keep getting stronger exponentially like the Disco Stu graph

Eamon Short

Felix's side projects are always underrated. So far I'd rank all 3 eps of this above almost all episodes of Hinge Points and half of the inebriated past. No shade to Matt, I love him and I love history, IP on Mormons and Gladio is so of the best shit to come outta the side projects. I'm just trying to convey that I don't get the hate, or, at best, lack of interest in this historically layered, piece. It's dense, with a lot of great historical analysis and I feel is, thus far. Slept on.

Kompy

Tiny bit disappointed that this didn't follow a more Hell of Presidents style format, i think it would have been great to have Josh presenting the historical background to highlight the color and character in Felix's commentary. But this is still a lot of fun as-is, as an elder Zoomer i'm enjoying how many names are pinging faint memories of people my parents would complain about when i was 6.

wigglybuddy

Died and went to Muslim heaven at Ocrumbo

Casey Smith

Welcome back Matt! Missed you!

bruce

Lee fang jumpscare

bruce

VI SITTER HAR I VENTEN OCH SPELAR LITE DOTA

bruce

Kamala lost. But also, these people getting "what they want" doesn't make them any less personally detestable

bruce

He had the electoral numbers to back it

That Guy

I remember when my friend told me about that song... over vertrilo during an IceFrog DotA loading screen.

Gabe

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink

regular bird

Man I almost fell off a ladder at "Obituary"

Hardcore Virgin

That crowder clip talking about Israel Palestine is why I hate the internet. I hear it I abhor its stupidity then I spend a pointless ten minutes imagining how if I had reach I’d destroy him in a debate. This comment is a sublimated gasp.

Mountain Dew Or Crab Juice

Basshunter sent me down a memory hole I haven't been to since I tried breaking my Pandora algorithm by rejecting every song it tried playing

Axel

O-Bloodborne got a laugh out of me

Jon

That one actually got me

Archie MacLellan

I know how yah feel mate. One I fall for badly is reading Facebook comments and spending ages arguing with arseholes. Leaves me fuming haha

Jon W

No one should be forced to listen to Steven Crowder

Jon W

He was doing his "Debate Me" schtick on UT Campus the year I graduated. There's no real counter to a clown like that. He's got the Jester's Privilege. And it's not like he's going to air anything that makes him look bad.

Wyatt the Wallaby

The crowder clip on how tough israelis are has aged like milk

Paige Glowacky

Would love to hear a 6 part series just on Crowder

Zackary Kelley

Basshunter clip at the end thank you sir

Wingus

What’s the number 1 most evil Rolling Stones song?

Sarah S

I agree. Incredibly distracting and annoying like a precocious child showing off.

Jon W

I can barely stand his voice for a two minute clip

claude

just call Obama by his name, or at least pick one nickname and stick to it FFS

cosmia

astounding commitment to the bit. bust a gut at o'Bloodborne

Taylor Bray

“10 year old with an airsoft gun, a flip video camera, and paralyzer by Finger Eleven” Felix described my entire childhood

Addy G

rush is right tho under my thumb is a banger track

Sexual Harry Potter

The only thing I will give crowder credit for is being able to piss off the people he doesn’t like because that clip about “why doesn’t Palestine just oppress Israel then” was so fucking stupid I really did feel like my head was gonna explode for a minute

Sexual Harry Potter

Wow listening in 2026 really gave me whiplash hearing Felix talk about how “it’s easy to forgot Islamophobia was alive and well” at the end of Obungler considering since this was recorded we’ve gone through another entire cycle of 9/11 tier Islamophobia that’s on track to be replaced by outright Neo-Nazis that hate Jews even more than Muslims