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Jonah flies solo once more in a podcast filled with the hottest of takes: Biden’s foot-breaking story is not only totally true – it’s also just kind of lame, weed saved George H.W. Bush’s life, and, most controversially of all, The Walking Dead still has some redeeming qualities. He also discusses why you should take John Bolton’s advice in The Dispatch seriously, and “Eurosclerosis,” the fanciest word of the day.
Show Notes:
-The origins of Biden-Foot-Trutherism
-The week’s first Dispatch Podcast
-The Remnant with Jonathan Adler
-BREAKING: George H.W. Bush owes his life to hemp! Big If True!
-If you want… just … a font of wisdom in response to Jonah’s “I-told-you-so” moment, look no further than his Facebook page
-This week’s Remnant with Virginia Postrel; that’s the good nerd stuff, right there
-John Bolton’s piece for The Dispatch on the future of conservatism
-Jonah: “Too many Republicans just use conservatism as a tool”
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I used to live in a Republican dominated county. One with plenty of conservatives and “conservatives”. Ive got more than a few stories about political conversations I’ve had over the years in that environment.
On political alignment tests, for what their worth, I’m pretty close to the center point though a bit to the right. I’ve also been following politics slightly more than the average person for decades.
Anyway, one time I was at a bar and I somehow got into a political discussion with a “conservative”. This guy believed all the awful stories about the Clintons. Vince Foster was murdered, drug smuggling in Arkansas, etc. He hated the Clintons and all liberals. Because I didn’t also believe the conspiracy theories about the Clintons I was obviously a liberal in his view. I walked away from the discussion and avoided him because he got very agitated towards me while discussing the Clintons. This was in the early aughts well before Trump or the Tea Party.
So Jonah this type of thing has existed on the right for a lot longer then the last ten years.
I’ve also had political discussions with people on the left. And while there are similarities between the fringes at times, in my experience some of those on the right have wanted an actual physical fight over politics for a long time, especially when they lose an argument.
The criticism of this site for running the Bolton piece was weird. Of course you run a piece by a guy with his profile. With that said, I though the piece was mostly garbage narrowly concerned with the Republican Party, and power politics, rather than conservative thought or the future of our liberal democracy.