Oct 9, 2026 · 44 min · 9 segments
How did the far right launch itself into popular culture? In this episode Mark, Claudia and Marzi are joined by Xinyi Zhang and Alex Shermon, who bring their expertise on the far right and…
Mark DavisHostXinyi ZhangGuest
Claudia YoungPanelistAlex ShermonGuestMati MahmoodiPanelistThe cultural war, I think, has become the battlefield for both the right-wing and left-wing to get cultural influence over what people think about Yes, the cultural war has struggles over who gets to define social cultural norms and values.
And more recently, we've seen fights over critical race theories and cultural Marxism, gender ideology, and also cancel culture in the so-called Vogue cultural war.
Like when one side comes to believe that they have already lost their cultural ground and then their identity and values are being replaced and their kids are being taught in the wrong way and their history are being rewritten.
And this is a moment where right-wing extremism may start to appear and people start to think if we can't vote our way out of this, we need something more radical.
I think a lot of people are feeling that, that they can't vote their way out of the present situation.
Well, we just had another assassination attempt on the President of the US, so...
And obviously that's not from necessarily someone from the far right, but I think that...
Like, any assassination attempt of a, you know, political leader surely comes from a sense of total disillusionment with the system as it currently
Yeah, this has been a theme, Xenia, of our previous podcast, really, of how people are just totally disillusioned and everyone's kind of given up or giving up hope in institutions and political parties and so on and voting for fringe parties, you know, We're seeing, for example, the big shift in public support for One Nation, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party.
I'll be interested to see what that actually translates into at the Victorian state election and as events unfold because...
The cultural war, I think, has become the battlefield for both the right-wing and left-wing to get cultural influence over what people think about Yes, the cultural war has struggles over who gets to define social cultural norms and values.
And more recently, we've seen fights over critical race theories and cultural Marxism, gender ideology, and also cancel culture in the so-called Vogue cultural war.
Like when one side comes to believe that they have already lost their cultural ground and then their identity and values are being replaced and their kids are being taught in the wrong way and their history are being rewritten.
And this is a moment where right-wing extremism may start to appear and people start to think if we can't vote our way out of this, we need something more radical.
I think a lot of people are feeling that, that they can't vote their way out of the present situation.
Well, we just had another assassination attempt on the President of the US, so...
And obviously that's not from necessarily someone from the far right, but I think that...
Like, any assassination attempt of a, you know, political leader surely comes from a sense of total disillusionment with the system as it currently
Yeah, this has been a theme, Xenia, of our previous podcast, really, of how people are just totally disillusioned and everyone's kind of given up or giving up hope in institutions and political parties and so on and voting for fringe parties, you know, We're seeing, for example, the big shift in public support for One Nation, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party.
I'll be interested to see what that actually translates into at the Victorian state election and as events unfold because...
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