Twirling Towards Freedom
| Jonah Goldberg | Aug 14, 2020 | 18 | 46 |
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Have no fear, dear listener: while Jonah is still radio silent as he swan-dives in slow-mo off of waterfalls (or something), The Remnant hasn’t forgotten you. David French returns to guest host this episode with return favorite Ramesh Ponnuru from National Review and AEI. There’s the requisite Kamala Harris talk, but also deeper questions about ideology and the “Burn It Down” debates.
Show Notes:
-Henry Olsen: Kamala changes nothing
-Kevin Williamson summarizes the “Burn It Down” debates
-The inside baseball of Trump’s teleprompter troubles
-Ramesh on why the Republicans need to keep working-class voters
-“Always twirling towards freedom”
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I thought the second part was an interesting dive again into the Republican Party and some of its struggles and how people view the platform and Trump. Any chance we can have someone on The Remnant in the future that can do a dive in the Democratic Party and what the average person not paying attention thinks about its parties future right now and post election?
Thanks for the podcast David. Also, if you continue to host The Remnant, you will need a cat or dog to post pictures on your twitter feed. The dogs name can be Aquaman/woman and the cats name can be Cerberus (because why should a 3 headed dog guard the river Styx’s?).
Any chance the post Trump Republican Party will begin to take on the First amendment violations that are gaining traction among Democrats? Speech policing is more entrenched in the far left than most mainstream and moderate Democrats realize, and I don’t think they are as alarmed as they should be by things like The NY Times’ decision to do “sensitivity reads” and the attacks on free speech on college campuses.
I didn’t even notice it until I started looking off the beaten path on several different issues, and I’m still almost a little in shock about how pervasive it is. Since so much activism has been funneled through Twitter, I’m betting the old fogey establishment are about to be blindsided. Someone needs to be standing by to pick up the torch on this, for if people are shut down for disagreeing or even for being disagreeable, if people self-censor for fear of the thought police, we lose every opinion except the fringes, each of which justifies the existence of the other.