478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?

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🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Arthur Brooks is an economist who for 10 years ran the American Enterprise Institute, one of the most influential conservative think tanks in the world. He has come to believe there is only one weapon that can defeat our extreme political polarization: love. Is Brooks a fool for thinking this — and are you perhaps his kind of fool?

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0:00.0	I have a question that I'm afraid is going to sound rude no matter how I put it.
0:07.1	That's okay.
0:08.1	That's okay.
0:09.1	So, my reading of your second to last book, The Conservative Heart, was that it was written
0:13.8	to help pave the way for the right kind of Republican presidential candidate in 2016,
0:18.8	maybe a Jeb Bush type or whatnot.
0:21.5	Is that roughly right?
0:22.5	Yeah.
0:23.5	It was my entrant into the ideological sweepstakes of 2016.
0:27.6	It's debate night for the Republicans and we're just, and I lost.
0:32.4	This is a tough business.
0:33.4	Oh, I know.
0:34.4	You're a tough guy, Jeb.
0:35.4	And we need to have a leader that has been real tough.
0:38.6	You're never going to be president.
0:39.6	You're real tough.
0:40.6	You're a real tough guy.
0:41.6	I'm a 42 and you're a 3.
0:43.6	So, so far I'm doing better.
0:44.8	So far I'm doing better.
0:47.1	Right.
0:48.1	So, you did lose because Trump was not the kind of Republican or conservative candidate that
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