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The Neo-Whigs

Fellow Dispatcher Declan Garvey joins Jonah on today’s program, wherein they discuss the parallels between the GOP’s ...

By Jonah Goldberg

Published February 26, 2021

Fellow Dispatcher Declan Garvey joins Jonah on today’s program, wherein they discuss the parallels between the GOP’s current identity crisis and the last time that Americans witnessed a similar party realignment (the Whigs vs. Jacksonian Democrats). The guys discuss the prospects for a theoretically ascendant third party – “The people I spoke to said, ‘Yeah, I’d be happy to belong to a party that addressed my concerns even if I knew it might lose in the short term,’” says Declan – as well as early 2024 contenders and the validity of the “Red Dog Democrat” theory.

Show Notes:

–Declan’s page at The Dispatch

–“Hey, egghead, sing ‘Fair Harvard!’”

–Declan: “Is it Time for the Republican Party to Split Apart?”

–Steve Scalise won’t say the election wasn’t stolen

–Trump’s attack on Mitch McConnell

–Republican loyalty to Trump

–Mitt Romney says Trump is already a 2024 frontrunner

–Maine and Alaska should watch out for unintended consequences

–Bill Kristol: “What About Joe?”

–Tim Miller: “The Trade: Meet the New Red Dog Democrats”

–Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton propose a minimum wage hike

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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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