Pity the Pundits

Trump 2024 guaranteed?

Published January 17, 2024

Ross Douthat is back on The Remnant to provide a post-mortem for the Iowa caucuses. With the first result of the race now in, is Donald Trump’s renomination guaranteed? Where did Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley go wrong? Would a second Trump administration be staffed entirely by crazy people? And could a Trump-Biden rematch cause Jonah and Ross to rethink their life choices?

Show Notes:

-Watch this episode on YouTube

–Ross: “How Trump’s Opponents Made Iowa Easy for Him”

–Ross’ 2020 book, The Decadent Society

–Ramesh Ponnuru: “The 2024 Campaign Has Left Republicans in a State of Confusion”

–Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

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Jonah Goldberg

Editor in chief & co-founder of The Dispatch and Remnant podcast host. A scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an L.A. Times columnist, CNN commentator, and author of three NYT bestsellers. Goldberg worked at National Review for two decades.