Scarcity of Lacrimosity

On this weekend’s Ruminant, Jonah discusses how the essence of conservatism in all its variety ...

Published January 16, 2021

On this weekend’s Ruminant, Jonah discusses how the essence of conservatism in all its variety has been distilled down to a single oversimplistic metric: The more one likes Trump, and the more libs one owns, the more conservative one is assumed to be. “If you agree with Donald Trump, you’re a conservative, and if you defend Trump at all costs, you’re a good conservative.” Jonah then talks about how the larger panoply of conservative ideas is not only more interesting, but more practical for achieving realistic goals in our politics. There’s also a healthy smattering of theology, dog-talk, and Buckley stories throughout.

Show Notes:

– Take our podcast survey

– This week’s Remnant with Yuval

– This week’s G-File

– DeSantis puts his kid in a MAGA onesie

– Varieties of Conservatism in America

– Varieties of Progressivism in America

– Advisory Opinions talks about incitement standards

– Pew polls attitudes about election results

– This week’s Remnant with Keith Whittington

– Last weekend’s Ruminant

– Jonah combat’s J. V. Last’s dog-suspicion

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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.

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