2020: A Love Story

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

National Journal politics editor Josh Kraushaar stops by for a special Valentine's Day edition of The Remnant full of rank punditry on all things 2020. Show Notes: -Josh’s podcast, Against the Grain -Josh’s column, also called Against the Grain -The history of The Hotline -The unwokeness of most Democrats - precisely in point #6 -Steve Inskeep asking Warren what states she thinks she can win -Biden yelling in town halls -Jonah explaining Seth Masket’s argument at length -The Party Decides, a book that’s less and less true by the day -John Rauch’s suggestions re: primaries -Bernie calling open borders a Koch conspiracy -Ron DeSantis politicizing his kids -The chaos of second terms -Romney’s note to Senate colleagues

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0:00.0	Greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by
0:29.6	the Dispatch and the Dispatch Media you can go to the Dispatch.com where it's both a dessert topping and a
0:38.6	floor wax and we'll do everything that you needed to do. So as you know we tend to frown on rank
0:46.8	punditry around here but every now and then the times demand it and we've thought as much as I love
0:53.0	my friend Jim Garrity we thought we would go to an actual expert on these things and one might even call
1:03.2	him a Sephologist you can look it up just note the piece silent and we have Josh Kraushauer from
1:11.2	National Journal he's the against the grain columnist and he has a great podcast called
1:15.8	against the grain and he's the politics editor at National Journal and his Twitter handle is hotline
1:20.8	Josh does the hotline still exist it does and I still I'm sort of the editor emeritus I have a sort of a
1:28.1	a keen attachment to the hotline that's where I got got my start Steve Steve was was a hotliner back in
1:33.7	the day my wife was a hotliner is that right yeah there's a alum that I mean it's it's pretty amazing I've
1:37.8	been at NJ and I've been closely associated with the hotline for the last decade but there's just
1:43.4	amazing alum alumni group of people that get politics cover politics analyze politics yeah so I
1:48.9	mean it's kind of nice for listeners who don't know there was a time in Washington from correct my
1:53.6	math say 1994 95 to about 2000 where it was like the most important document in Washington mostly
2:01.4	distributed by facts and it was basically a very I mean I I want if I call it a clipping service
2:08.1	that's unfair but it was a very smart curated clipping service of things in the news right yeah it
2:13.6	was aggregation and analysis especially before you have newsletters you have Twitter you have
2:19.3	blogs it was pre pre the really the first of its kind to analyze and break down all the political
2:24.1	news when you really didn't have the technology to figure out what was going on in New Hampshire and
2:28.2	Nevada right any of the big Senate races now there's a lot more competition internet has changed a
2:33.7	lot of things but one of the one of the things that it it always has had is just a deep dive into
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