Alarmism or Realism? | The Roundtable Ep. 2 Segment 2: The Past
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 31 January 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Don’t panic: Our editors are here to discuss the merits and blind spots of some recent calls for civility and caution among conservatives.
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| 0:00.0 | And it comes on the streets of London. |
| 0:07.0 | Hane comes streets of burning hand. |
| 0:10.0 | I wonder to myself. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, so let's take up the past a bit, or the recent past, |
| 0:21.0 | last couple of years really. |
| 0:22.0 | Our good friend Michael Anton, of couple of years really. |
| 0:22.7 | Our good friend Michael Anton, of course, |
| 0:24.9 | wrote this famous essay, The Flight 93 election, |
| 0:28.4 | right around Labor Day of 2015, Rush Limbaugh ended up reading it on air. I think the whole thing crashed our website. |
| 0:36.4 | It's still consistently one of our most red pieces and as I like to joke with Mike, |
| 0:41.6 | Flight 93 is now referenced without any explanation as a certain kind of alarmist mindset on the right. |
| 0:49.0 | We obviously don't think that essay was alarmist. We think in, Mike has been proven substantially correct in his predictions or |
| 0:57.4 | his analysis of the stakes and the bent of the radical left and what it wants to do with power once it gets it. |
| 1:07.6 | But I like to joke with Mike that he really gets to live rent free in the heads of a good portion of our elite left and right. |
| 1:15.9 | So we want to just talk a little bit about this complaint about alarmist rhetoric. |
| 1:21.2 | First on the agenda is this piece from earlier in January by Andy |
| 1:25.5 | Samarick at the bulwark.com. As I said in a tweet thread about it, |
| 1:30.5 | friends don't let friends normally read the bulwark so we're |
| 1:33.7 | here to summarize for you so you don't have to. But Andy said the following, we |
| 1:38.5 | see similar sentiments on the other end of the political spectrum. He had just |
| 1:42.3 | been talking about the left and |
| 1:43.8 | alarmist rhetoric on the left. Michael Anton in his infamous 2016 Claremont |
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