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It’s the middle of the month and that means it’s time for Jonah Goldberg, Rob Long, and John Podhoretz to take another tour through politics and pop culture. In this episode, they cover why the Trump campaign is like Grey Gardens, dissect the big battle scene on this week’s “Game of Thrones,” ask if sequels are killing Hollywood, and share thoughts on the dump Trump movement gathering steam before next month’s Republican convention.
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Probably, that’s the problems. Intellectuals are shapeshifting creatures of no great account. Politicians might solve this–for example, by hijacking the convention. But they would have to resolve to get the people on their side, if the people will let themselves be persuaded. It takes great resolve to attempt that…. Of course, again we come to the unpleasant fact–a man has to be found who would be willing to risk all this scandal & who could be acceptable to the people.–Maybe that’s the politician’s advantage over the intellectuals, ultimately.
I am so weary of every single Ricochet podcast being an hour of ranting about how stupid Trump voters are.
It is beyond tiresome.
(Since I have to say this I do not support Trump in any way.)
I thought it was mostly about what a conman he is & how he has deceived people–not that they’re stupid.
I do agree, however, there is something unseemly about the way these people speak–something like a smug detachment; one only waits for them to add something about SMOD & conclude, lol nothing matters-
Hrm. The pundits, here and elsewhere, have had their say. Enough voters feel differently and couldn’t give a flip what the pundits say. Left and right promote false memes by the pound, on the second, and call it truth. Conventional wisdom is dead. “He’s dead, Jim.” “This parrot is an ex-parrot.” It’s a chaos of clamoring for a strong state, left and right, so we can rush back to our make-believe safe-spaces.
The constitution, as we knew it, is in grave peril. And the average US citizen says; “so what?”
I give a flip…
We all do here. An island of flip-giving in an ocean of indifference.
I don’t care if the people that run Ricochet don’t vote for Trump. Honestly. I don’t care if they hate his guts, at this point. What I’m tired of is the incessant whining about how much they hate Trump.
This podcast used to be funny and entertaining. Now it’s a big bitter, whiny bucket of bile.
Any sober American gets what dire straits we’re in. Let’s flip this around. I’m tired the incessant inability of Trump supporters to comprehend what they’ve wrought. That your crap sandwich is the presumptive nominee doesn’t mean the whole party has to get behind him, or like it, as, apparently, you were all counting on.