A Warning Against Nihilism

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

They say Labor Day marks the ordinary American's starting point for following a particular election cycle, setting off a scramble for undecides by campaigners and a busy couple of months for pollsters. Henry Olsen returns to discuss where things stand in the presidential race as we head toward the first debate; he offers some potential outcomes that will determine the extent of the Republican majority in the Senate; and he expands on his piece about the populist parties' successes in eastern Germany, explaining "Ostalgie," and detailing the adjustments mainstream parties will have to make if they want to maintain stability in the West.

Plus, James and Charlie are emphatically pro-Churchill.

- This week’s opening sound: Darryl Cooper's take on Winston Churchill in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Transcript

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0:00.0	And it's always a good day when you can bash Hitler.
0:02.8	Yes, we do take on the difficult issues here.
0:07.2	It's normally less controversial.
0:09.2	Yeah.
0:10.2	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:15.0	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:18.0	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. It's the ricoche podcast with Charles C. W. Cook.
0:25.0	I'm James Lallix and we're going to be talking to Henry Olson about behind the poles, before the poles,
0:30.0	Hitler, Germany, well, let's just have ourselves a podcast.
0:34.0	I thought Churchill was the chief villain of the Second World War.
0:37.0	Now he didn't kill the most people, he didn't commit the most atrocities,
0:42.0	but I believe, and I don't really think I think when you
0:45.1	really get into it and tell the story right and don't leave anything out you see
0:50.4	that he was primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did, becoming something
0:54.7	other than an invasion of Poland.
0:57.3	Welcome everybody, this is the Ricochet podcast at number seven hundred and seven seven-07 once a great plane. I can't remember the last time I was on one of those. In any case we'll be flying for the next hour or so talking with Charles
1:11.0	C. W. Cook and a guest to be named shortly discussing
1:15.0	things here thither yawn in particular in Germany. Oh good we're talking
1:20.1	about Germany this week. Charlie I don't know about your Twitter feed,
1:22.5	but mine was substantially concerned this week
1:26.3	with a revisiting, refighting, rethinking World War II.
1:29.8	There's a certain element that was just vociferously arguing in Twitter that the
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