The Coming Storm

4.8 (863)
DOCUMENTARY

America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture. Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it? That's the story that Gabriel Gatehouse is investigating in this series of The Coming Storm. The search for the origins of this story takes Gabriel inside a paranoid political group that tried to build its own Deep State during the Cold War, now back in fashion in the conservative backwaters of western mountain states. Gabriel meets the January 6 rioters running for office who see their detention as political imprisonment in gulags, and the militia men convinced the CIA and FBI are working against the American people. In the background lurk the tech utopian ideologues, using their vast wealth and power to fund conspiracy flavoured content as they work to create sovereign states free of all government control. And online, amateur finance bros foment distrust of government, central banks and giant financial institutions to millions of followers. What were once fringe ideas have burst into the mainstream. Conspiracy theories have become central planks of Trump's Republican Party, while Democrats run on dark warnings about the end of democracy. With both sides convinced the other is an existential threat, what are the prospects for the survival of the American political system?

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Gabriel Gatehouse

Host

4.8

out of 5

863 Ratings

Essential Listening

28 Jan

nicholsonburr

This has been awesome from the beginning and I hope it continues. Gabriel and Lucy are ideally placed to investigate the chaos that sits behind the American psyche - someone has to. I keep an open mind as much as I can but always feel better informed after an episode of this. We need even more, with you know who back in the White House. Enough material for 10 seasons I would think!
Don’t believe their propaganda, believe ours.

19 Feb

Hdjdodpskdjdpspsj

This horrifically left-wing podcast essentially attempts to convince you that any right-wing “conspiracy” is false. I found the episode ‘The Jump’ particularly disturbing. It is an hour long attack on a man who hunts down child-traffickers. Why does the narrator hate people who arrests child abusers so much?
Brilliantly bold

7 Jan

singingjimmy

⭐️⭐️
Lame, boring, uninformed commentators

20 Jan

TheFebruarys

Lame, boring and uninformed commentators. They may have knowledge but they have no way to impart it. If anyone wants a realistic take on what’s going on the Rachel Maddow is your source, or Strict Scrutiny gals, or the Jack podcast duo. This pair, with their bad sound is a real disservice to the BBC.

America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems. As America heads into a presidential election, Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into the labyrinthine rabbit warren of American conspiracy culture. Whilst liberals across the world worry about a possible return of Donald Trump, millions of Americans are convinced that their democracy has already been highjacked - by a sinister Deep State cabal. How did this happen? And who is behind it? That's the story that Gabriel Gatehouse is investigating in this series of The Coming Storm. The search for the origins of this story takes Gabriel inside a paranoid political group that tried to build its own Deep State during the Cold War, now back in fashion in the conservative backwaters of western mountain states. Gabriel meets the January 6 rioters running for office who see their detention as political imprisonment in gulags, and the militia men convinced the CIA and FBI are working against the American people. In the background lurk the tech utopian ideologues, using their vast wealth and power to fund conspiracy flavoured content as they work to create sovereign states free of all government control. And online, amateur finance bros foment distrust of government, central banks and giant financial institutions to millions of followers. What were once fringe ideas have burst into the mainstream. Conspiracy theories have become central planks of Trump's Republican Party, while Democrats run on dark warnings about the end of democracy. With both sides convinced the other is an existential threat, what are the prospects for the survival of the American political system?