Fire Hose of Outrage
| Jonah Goldberg | May 30, 2020 | 25 | 44 |
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Jonah ruminates on why we can't have nice things, darling. A journey that takes us from Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals to John Courtney Murray's The Return to Tribalism. From the cigar shop to the primitive Greek usage of the word "idiot."
Show Notes:
-Jonah's piece Cigars: A Love Story or Two
-Jonah's piece Democracy in the Tobacconist’s
-Sen. Ben Sasse's civics lesson
-How to educate an American webinar
-John Courtney Murray's The Return to Tribalism
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I'm with Jonah on the 17th Amendment. The whole "idiot" discussion justifies having just a little bit less popular democracy.
An appointed Senate would never have kowtowed to Trump.
I think your spat with Kayleigh McEnany has gotten a little too personal. A lot of what goes on in those WH press briefings is performance art for journalists and she often pushes back effectively. I don't think it's fair of you to assume that because she was critical of Trump some years ago and now is not that this is hypocrisy. I think there are some people who, in good faith, have come around to President Trump, at least in so far as he needs defense from some of the more ridiculous charges, who were not supporters in the past.
Now, I agree that at least some of what the WH Press Secretary says is hard to accept, but you know, it's a dirty job and somebody has to do it. It's better that there are regular press briefings than silence out of the WH and it's good that we have someone who can actually do a fair job of it.