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Jonah the Globetrotter has once again scattered to the four winds, temporarily leaving The Remnant once more in the capable hands of David French. Today, David speaks with his good friend Yascha Mounk, contributor to The Atlantic and founder of Persuasion. Mounk talks us through the current conditions within mainstream media outlets and how those institutions have the opportunity to lower the temperature of American discourse now that Trump is leaving office. David also talks about how a Biden administration might be expected to behave, and Yascha mentions that much of the conventional wisdom about the presidential election results are not only misguided, but that they often “underestimate the intelligence of the American people.”
Show Notes:
–David’s newsletter, The French Press
–Yascha’s new publication, Persuasion
–The earliest mention of “nutpicking” that the Remnant crew could find
–Jonathan Haidt’s Heterodox Academy
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More Trump hatred from people who define themselves by their Trump hatred.
French and Mounk discuss the possibility of Trump being prosecuted for terrible crimes (which are not identified), but are hesitant because such a prosecution might be seen as “political.”
Just about spit up my coffee when French derided Trump backers as believing that because the polls were wrong about a blue wave, Biden stole the election. French & Jonah spent a significant number of podcast hours in October assuring their listeners that the polls were correct, and that there would be a “blue wave.”
There really is nothing to be learned from this podcast. No new ideas are explored, no new arguments are presented.
David also talks about how a Biden administration might be expected to behave
Politely expanding abortion.
This description applies so many podcasts. All these pundits are useless as tits on a bull.
But David French may be the worst of them all. I mean, Bill Kristol is terrible, but at least he doesn’t try to coat it in piety and use Christianity as a cudgel against the deplorables.
@DrewInWisconsin
I think that David French looks at Trump and thinks “That man is a bigger sinner than I am.”
Maybe it is a Baptist thing.
David French looks at all of us that way.
They’re worse. Many years ago a friend took issue with that saying, we said boar though. He said male nipples contribute genetic information to female offspring so they do serve a purpose. I guess French and Goldberg might serve a purpose, a warning to conservatives.
French lives out Luke 18:11 every day.
His most consistent criticism is that we don’t have the higher ground on cheating on one’s spouse like we did with Clinton.
To my knowledge Trump hasn’t cheated on Melania in the White House. But David did sleep with Bathsheba while still king
I am a Baptist (most accurately Reformed Baptist). It is not a Baptist thing.
Wait… The MSM doesn’t have the “opportunity” to “lower the temperature” while Trump is president? Did I miss the commandment that the MSM must act like screaming fools and traitors at all times during his presidency? Or maybe he means that they must act that way during all Republican presidencies, but can now relax having completed their destructive mission? What idiocy.