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Start spreading the news: Esteemed historian Vincent Cannato is back on The Remnant to discuss all things New York City. After digging into the ongoing mayoral election, Curtis Sliwa’s rescue cats, and Rudy Giuliani’s descent into madness, Jonah and Vin explore what the Big Apple’s partisan divisions reveal about America’s broader political shenanigans. From there, they consider how the paranoid style in American politics can explain the right’s embrace of post-liberal Catholic integralism. At the end of it all, one question remains: Who will be the third man in Jonah and Vin’s upcoming production of On the Town?

Show Notes:

–The New York Post backs Eric Adams

–Brad Lander’s comptroller campaign

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    Ben Connelly

    Wow, Cannato spoke exactly to me when he dispelled the hopes of conservatives who thought they liked Eric Adams. I was disappointed to hear it, but thank for enlightening me.

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  2. DoctorRoo

    I'm new to The Remnant. Can someone please explain the musical LOTR reference whenever President Wilson is mentioned?

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    1. Icarus213

      Jonah has a light-hearted yet serious obsession with how evil President Wilson was. He often refers to him as "history's greatest monster."

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      1. DoctorRoo

        Wow! He left a decent legacy in Virginia but I'll brush up on my history.

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    Adicesa14

    As I recall, perhaps incorrectly, early in Trump’s Administration, he & Schumer were commiserating for a short while. Then, in opposition to this cooperation, leftist activists began daily demonstrations at Schumer’s residence. Naturally, he capitulated, and collaboration on infrastructure or anything else was finished.

    Suggestion: A few musical notes, but different than the musical notes following Woodrow Wilson, should follow the word ‘primary.’ Great podcast. Thank you

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    Paul B

    Periodic reminder that The Dispatch should try to get Jonah on as a guest on Conan O'Brien's podcast.

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    Michael Garrett

    Though I may try to pretend otherwise, I can never tire of listening to such richly informed discussions of my home town's politics. I will personally pay for Vin Cannato's gold jacket.

    Now for the nit-picking quibble: Rudy's participation in the "City Hall cop riot" was in September of 1992, after his first, failed, 1989 run for mayor against David Dinkins and as his second, victorious, campaign was getting underway.

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    CP

    "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" is the "Saturday Night Fever" of the early 00's in terms of musical trend-setting. Also, it's a better movie.

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  7. R. James

    The Republican Party is not conservative anymore, unless the thing they're attempting to conserve is what's left of Trump's legacy. To Vincent's point, the Republican Party, from a historical perspective, has not been practicing post war Fusionist Conservatism for twenty years. I do think that Jonah is overblowing the concern about the influence of Catholic Integralism way too much. (Perhaps it comes from the same blindspot that leads him to compliment Oliver Cromwell and make Ultra-montanism jokes) As a conservative Catholic, I can tell you the people, who actually believe in Integralism are an extreme minority even amongst conservative Catholics. Perhaps Catholic Integralist are over represented in the blogosphere, but they have no grass roots support in the actual Church. Although to Vincent's point, concern for religious liberty, the failure of institutions to protect religious liberty and the political left's hostility to religious people amongst conservative Christians, in general, is very high (See, David French's Divided We Fall).

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    Gabrielle G

    My dad is in his 70s and from Queens. He brings up Curtis Sliwa’s run whenever we talk. He’s very excited about it.

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    Pastorfbt

    Parochial as it might sound, I would have liked Vin's outsider (sort of) perspective on MA politics - statewide and the Boston mayoral race. The People's Republic of Massachusetts is sui generis but not completely so

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