Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? — And Other Questions

It's been nearly a year since we asked our subscribers to send us questions for a mailbag episode—which they did, with remarkable thoughtfulness and intelligence, for our 100th episode back in September 2024. A lot has happened since then (to say the least), so we wanted to once again open up the mailbag and find out what was on the minds of Know Your Enemy listeners, who 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 of them. In this round of listener 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…