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The Dumbest Revolution

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Because we have to, we spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the recent events at college campuses around the country. Luckily, we have a Yale grad on the show to help us parse all of the cruel injustices taking place in New Haven. Then, the Mad Dog himself, National Review's Kevin Williamson joins to discuss his new Encounter Broadside The Case Against Trump. Finally, all the way from Japan, the great Mort Kondracke Skypes in to discuss his new book Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America and his terrific rebuttal to the New York Times review of the book.

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  • Peter Robinson@PeterRobinson
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    Casey (View Comment):

    Oh darn… then you lost it 7 minutes later. You’ll come around.

    Casey, you're killin' me here. What the heck did I say that so please you at 4:17 on which I so foolishly reversed myself a mere three minutes later? (Have experienced each podcast once, as we recorded it, I've never been able to force myself to experience it again by listening to it. In other words, Casey, if you don't tell me what I said I'll never know.)

  • Casey@Casey
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    Peter Robinson (View Comment):

    Casey, you’re killin’ me here. What the heck did I say that so please you at 4:17 on which I so foolishly reversed myself a mere three minutes later?

    Oh, it's this business of the US being an unserious country. (I went back... looks like closer to the 4 minute mark.)

    Last week you all sided with anonymous's misdiagnosis of this being an unserious country. The problem is that this country is far too serious. You remarked that these college kids have taken what they've heard at these institutions seriously. And that's what concerns me. All this seriousness is making us nuts.

    A few minutes later you mentioned the seriousness of the Russian revolutionaries and the unseriousness of the liberals. But a revolution is kind of bonkers. The liberals took their position so seriously they couldn't work a little bonkers into it.

    Politics is not a serious business. It's a goofy, senseless business.

    If we want to win votes and influence people, we need to be less serious, not more serious.

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