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214 Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.

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Constance Grady @ Vox · 09/16/2025 06:00 EDT

Trump wants to be a cultural tastemaker. The CIA did it first.

The modern Republican Party has fully embraced Andrew Breitbart’s maxim that “politics runs downstream of culture.” That seems to be part of why President Donald Trump has spent so much time in his second term trying to take control of American arts: because that’s the water that streams down into politics. If American politics is […]

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