273: Christopher Caldwell: The great betrayal of the masses

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Christopher Caldwell, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Christopher and Brendan discuss the rise of the anti-worker left, the insanity of the elites and the future of populism.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And the Whatever the
0:23.0	transgender project,
0:28.0	elite rules, it will be called centrist.
0:32.0	The transgender project, for example, is a project of the so-called
0:38.0	Centrist, but most people would not consider a Centrist understanding of the world, right?
0:43.7	There is no real sense that you have the forces of capital on the right and the forces of
0:49.2	labor on the left and reasonable people in the middle trying to mediate between the two.
0:55.0	That sort of center doesn't exist anymore.
1:00.0	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neil and my special
1:05.1	guest this week, Christopher Caldwell.
1:07.1	Christopher, welcome to the show.
1:08.1	Thanks, Brendan, good to be here.
1:10.1	It's great to have you back on.
1:11.6	There is a lot of stuff I want to ask you about in about public life political life America Europe in your capacity as a writer for the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, the Wall Street Journal, the Spectator,
1:25.4	too many other publications to mention. You've always got interesting things to say on all those questions.
1:31.8	But I really want to kick off I guess with a pretty basic question which I'm always
1:36.1	keen to ask American folk which is what the what the hell is going on in American politics right now. To us outsiders, it looks like it's a bit of a mess. It looks like the next presidential election will be a rerun of the last one. Two old Duffers battling out for the White House, and it seems that one of them is so unstable
1:58.8	he's not even fit to stand trial for secreting away, top secret documents, and the other one is still a bit of a loud mouth and has got loads of
2:06.8	trials and accusations stacking up against him so it looks a bit crazy I think to the average outside observer what's your take on
2:14.8	where American politics is at right now and what might happen with the presidential election?
2:20.4	Oh boy well it is a bit crazy in its outward appearance, but there's a there's a
2:28.0	logic to it. It's a basic, you know, a basic populist elite problem so a lot of people you know they look at I think
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