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Some Sweet Sowell Music
Tomorrow’s Ricochet Podcast is the Big Brain edition with our guests Yuval Levin (do your homework and read his essay The Next Conservative Movement before listening to the show) and the totally awesome Thomas Sowell, who has some yuge issues with a certain presumptive nominee that he’d like to air out in a very rare non-book pegged podcast appearance. Join us live tomorrow at 9AM PT/12PM ET or listen on your favorite podcast machine at your leisure. But do listen. And tell your friends to listen too.
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I guess I’ll be taking a personal day tomorrow. I love listening to Dr. Sowell.
Two great thinkers.
I read Levin’s piece. His assessment of Trump more as an end than a beginning matches the opinion of a Trump supporter I spoke to recently. That man said he just wanted Trump to “go in there and blow it up” (figuratively, of course). In other words, he just wants someone — anyone — to smash the status quo in DC so that reasonable ideas can be considered.
The rest of Levin’s article is a nice dream, but I don’t see why decentralization will be any more popular tomorrow than it is today.
Colorado’s Supreme Court rejected a Christian baker’s appeal of a verdict ordering him to make cakes for gay weddings, and to “re-educate” his staff. How many Republican voters agree with the court? Even at the local level, alliances are failing.
I’d like Levin (or others) to explain why this is the moment that decentralization and live-and-let-live politics will finally emerge. How can anyone know what opportunities or challenges will exist after a convention and election as mercurial as these?
Hope, but hold your predictions until the old system finishes crashing. Wait for the rubble to settle before trying to clear the ground.
My dog wears his Thomas Sowell t-shirt proudly.
Do you hug him?
Now with 25% bigger brains!
Levin seems to be proposing America become a multi-national state (as opposed to “melting pot” one-America nationalism). I don’t suppose the hosts could ask him why he thinks this won’t lead to an Ottoman or Austro-Hungarian Empire type collapse?
Levin seems to be proposing a middle position between our current situation and a sort of American EU. That strikes me as a very unstable position to be in.