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A.B. Stoddard rejoins the show for the three-timer award, as well as to talk, well, politics of all things. What can we expect from Senate Republicans at the start of the new Biden administration. Especially with a vote on whether to convict Donald Trump in the pipeline? We also get some more chronicles in the saga of Mitch McConnell: Machiavellian, principled, or both? And what about the recent flurry of (largely) socially progressive executive orders from the Resolute Desk? Stoddard helps determine what of this recent political news is a signal, and what’s simply noise.
Show Notes:
-The Hawaii GOP expresses its support for QAnon
-Is Jim Jordan about to get more influential?
-“The One Where Jonah Calls Matt Gaetz a Steroidal Playmobil Figurine”
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I've been a Dispatch member more or less since the start (just had to renew my subscription the other day because my credit card expired and so the auto-renew didn't work). I joined The Dispatch largely because I'd loved Jonah and David's stuff at NR (which I read even though I'm not really conservative and definitely not Republican). All that to say that I'm not some super-woke liberal.
That said, the intro to the show really annoyed me. Jonah, your least-endearing quality is your tendency to belittle people who disagree with certain of your ideas. At the beginning of the show, you basically implied that a person would have to be some sort of woke idiot to think that calling a woman "the lovely and talented" is sexist. It bugs me that you are so arrogantly dismissive of other people's opinions, or at least that you come off that way. David and Sarah never do, which is one reason why I've come to enjoy their podcast more than yours.
Here's my pitch for why calling a woman what you did is sexist. It basically says that it's important for us to judge a woman by her looks. Or, at the very least, it implies that her looks are important enough to be mentioned when introducing her. To me, that's sexist because we don't judge men on their looks/discuss their looks when introducing them on a show. Now, I have no problem with you disagreeing with me, but you came across as if anyone who disagreed with you is a complete idiot who must have something wrong with them. (I feel like you came across this way when you were talking to Charles Murray about race some time ago as well.)
I subscribed to The Dispatch, in part, because of you. But I really do not like this aspect of your personality.
Your political discussions with A.B. Stoddard are top notch.