Unconditional Amnesty

With the election less than two weeks away, it’s time to start thinking about what a post election party might look like. For that, we call on The Atlantic’s David Frum to help us sort it all out. Also, we debate why the seemingly endless Wikileaks email stories don’t get more traction in the media, a selection of posts from Ricochet’s Member Feed, and that now infamous Megan Kelly-Newt Gingrich confrontation. Just two more weeks…

Public service announcement: if you’re not a member of Ricochet and enjoy this podcast, be one of the 1,500 and join today.

Music from this week’s podcast: Hello by Adele

The opening sequence for the Ricochet Podcast was composed and produced by James Lileks.

Yes, you should absolutely subscribe to this podcast. It helps! And leave a review too!

All is forgiven, @EJHill.

Subscribe to The Ricochet Podcast in Apple Podcasts (and leave a 5-star review, please!), or by RSS feed. For all our podcasts in one place, subscribe to the Ricochet Audio Network Superfeed in Apple Podcasts or by RSS feed.

Now become a Ricochet member for only $5.00 a month! Join and see what you’ve been missing.

There are 31 comments.

Become a member to join the conversation. Or sign in if you're already a member.
  1. I Walton Member
    I Walton
    @IWalton

    I think all of you should listen to VDH podcast just above.  He is wiser, more balanced and more solidly grounded in history.  Frum shares views with the post war liberal elite of both parties which VDH defines with devastating clarity.  It’s grounded in tea kettle view of politics that sees the post war social democratic initiatives as the thing that channeled, allowed the blowing off of steam, ameliorated the economic harshness that would have led inevitably to a communist Europe, that coopted the left and defeated the threat of communism.   That’s always been wrong.  We applied the same thinking to the Alliance for Progress and the World and regional banks with deeply harmful effects.  The Marshall plan  provided liquidity and helped open trade the rest was organic growth not social democratic co-optation.  NATO and containment did the rest.   Politics and all other human endeavors is biology not physics.   Social democracy here and there was fertilizer not steam venting.  So we defeated the Soviet Union and Hitler but are run by Marxists and  Nihilists.  We won both wars but are losing the struggle with these modern intellectual diseases because our elite share their errors.  Nuff said, I don’t have a short version to deal with this error, but it’s not  Trump’s globalists;  he’s a symptom of the same post war view of politics as physics, the thing a technocratic elite can run but in reality just allows for what VDH  describes so clearly.

    • #31
Become a member to join the conversation. Or sign in if you're already a member.