Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast, this is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this you're not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation.

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display, isolationist willing to abdicate US leadership

globally, unconcerned that they now have a candidate who openly supports dictators in wars of aggression who said that he would encourage

Putin to do whatever the hell he wants to our NATO allies if they don't spend enough on their

own defense because they're quote delinquent in their payments as though the defense of Western

civilization has all the significance of a rental dispute over a condominium in Florida

it would be one thing to argue for American isolationism, and to reconsider our involvement

in foreign conflicts.

I do think it would be easy to take the other side of that argument and to make the case

that pulling back from the world that is

failing to defend democracies against aggressive autocracies, failing to

defend our traditional allies, losing NATO, etc. I think it would be easy to argue that all of that would be very bad, not just

for the world but for American security eventually. But what we see on the right is not

merely an America first agenda.

We see a totally amoral and in many cases immoral fondness for dictators and for Putin in particular and for the total eclipse of

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