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I enjoyed the podcast enormously, as I used to before Mike and Todd became Trump finger puppets. The choice to see the election as binary and vote for Trump against Hillary is a perfectly defensible position. It is not my choice, but I respect those who make it. I choose to vote for neither. What I found in the past to be inexcusable was the willingness to ignore reality and continue to see Trump as the Second Coming. That said, I don’t know for sure that Trump will lose this election by a landslide, by a slim margin, or possibly win it due to Hillary’s incredible incompetence and dishonesty. Despite Trump’s weaseling on immigration, he does seem to be holding his ground as Hillary seems to be losing some of hers. Being a conservative in Western Washington means being irrelevant in a presidential election, in fact, in all but local and congressional elections (even there it is somewhat less than satisfying.)
Anyway, I am glad to be able to once again tune into your podcast and not find myself turning it off half-way through in disgust. I am curious to see is another personal favorite, John Derbyshire, has repented his status as a Trump finger puppet also. His absurd gloating over Trump’s previous stances on immigration made it nearly impossible to listen to. It isn’t that I am for open borders, I am not. I simply wanted someone to run who could be trusted.
Sic ’em, Rob.
Yes yes that’s unproductive and only worsens the divide within our party. But all the Trumpkins knew, KNEW, that they understood the country better than the Beltway elites who think that the country isn’t 65% right-wing conservative. People who think like me were either lying, stupid, evil, or all three.
How’s that plan working out now?
HLC does not show up on Stitcher. I imagine that may hurt viewership.
Rob wins by KO.
We’ll fix that (although we have relatively few listeners on there).
Thanks! To quote Dr. Suess, “We are here! We are here! We are here!” I’ve been using Stitcher to listen for a couple of years now…
Thanks to Pete, thanks to B.Y.!
We were trying to be civil to our guest!
Perhaps shoot for “sparring partner” instead of “punching bag” next time. :) It’s OK, if you get a little contentious with Rob I’m sure he’ll come back.
This business about the binary choice involves a magician’s trick on the Trump supporters’ part: The trick is the assumption that this is a straight-up fair fight between two equally matched opponents and that every vote is going to have supernatural significance when it comes down to it. The truth is that Trump has slit the throat of Republican chances nationally.
Michael, as a Physicist and a Scientist, you know that is the case. The polls were essentially dead-on in the prior election. The national horse-race number is essentially meaningless other than as a barometer of how close the national popular vote is.
The state polls reveal an ugly picture for Trump: He can’t flip any blue states and he is in real danger of losing numerous states Romney won.
That isn’t the fault of neverTrump people: that’s the fault of Trump himself for failing to make of himself a credible candidate. This is a guy who could only manage to get 40% of the Republican primary electorate – and to flip his claim on its head, no Republican primary candidate has had more votes go against him either. Nothing on that front has changed, and the mythical surge of lower-middle class whites that the Trump campaign is saying will show up to vote for them is just that: mythical.
If Trump had a shred of decency and honor he would commit political seppuku for the good of the nation and step aside for Pence or for whatever the party could cobble together. But he doesn’t, so he won’t.
Catching up on old HLC podcast. I really enjoy Rob Long and miss him on the Ricochet podcast. I even recently started watching his show “Kevin Can Wait.”
That said looking back on his comments from this podcast man was he off base HAHA. Should Rob Long return to HLC podcast in 2017, I hope you guys give him the business!