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Chris Stirewalt is back on The Remnant to discuss how we can make politics boring again. As ...

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Chris Stirewalt is back on The Remnant to discuss how we can make politics boring again. As Chris observes, we’ve entered a “wilderness of grifts,” where opportunistic nationalism and Lincoln Project-style chicanery are all the rage. Meanwhile, a new group is trying to turn Joe Biden into FDR, factions on the right are embracing the progressive vision of government, and rage clicks are poisoning the political well. What can we learn from Lincoln in this bizarre moment? How do Americans really feel about abortion? And will Chris finally make a pious man out of Jonah?

Show Notes:

–The Morning Dispatch breaks down the infrastructure negotiations

–The Jane Mayer piece that made Jonah’s morning

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  1. AL22

    I think Chris is missing the bigger picture on the masks in that it using them as punishment only hurts them with conservative voters. Progressives love wearing masks even if vaccinated because it's a safety virtue signal that they believe the right things. So their stance on using masks as punishment really isn't as all encompassing as Chris let on.

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    Ben Connelly

    This was awesome. Every time you have Chris on is a good episode. To be honest while I get the “average American’s” abortion view, it seems morally and scientifically inconsistent. Then again the Party of Science’s abortion view is even more scientifically inconsistent.

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    Jason Gibson

    This one had a glop aesthetic to it

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    Jason Gibson

    This is maybe my favorite episode. you had me at kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly kelly

    Don't mention the book of concord

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    Jason Gibson

    good point. Why hire Billie Whitelaw to be Damien's nanny which raises eyebrows? If Damien is just the sweetest child why would anyone see the devil coming?

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    David Burke

    Joe Walsh. “Life’s Been Good To Me”

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  7. DRHanson

    Although it wasn't exactly a central issue in this podcast, I feel compelled to respond to the statement by Chris that the Baseball Almanac is the definitive source of baseball statistics. While Baseball-Almanac.com is certainly a fine website with a LOT of information, Baseball-Reference.com is probably the go-to site for both traditional and new-wave analytical stats and ratings. They each have their strengths and as someone who does a lot of baseball research, I wouldn't want to be without either one of them. But if I could only choose one of them, it would be Baseball-Reference. [The preceding message was an unpaid non-celebrity endorsement.]

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  8. Ben Bobbitt

    Hey man, Memphis talk isn’t nano-talk! I might go as far as mili-talk or even micro-talk, but nano is too far. Chris, if you’re downtown to see the ducks, Rendezvous is fine barbecue. We have plenty of great places like Central, One and Only, and Commissary (with which you evidently are familiar).

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  9. DJ

    I rather like Jane Mayer's reporting in general. The argument that the GOP is not corporate is belied but what they actually put in their bills, including what ALEC pushes.

    And re: the campaign committees - I'll bet $100 right now that the NRCC will *not* give money to Liz Cheney. They are as captured by Trump as all the other institutions.

    The heads of both the NRCC and NRSC both voted against certification on January 6. The point of pressuring companies not to donate to them is to get the GOP to come to believe there is no future for those people.

    Also, citing Toyota's official candidates donations as proof of anything is disingenuous. They can give unlimited amounts to Super Pacs and never have it disclosed anywhere. They spend 10x their disclosed candidate donations on lobbying alone.

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  10. linda

    What's not to love about these two guys? Give Chris the Golden Jacket.

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