Welcome to left right and center. I'm Sarah Isger, Senior Editor at the

dispatch, and we're trying something a little different. We've got another David,

David French, opinion columnist to the New York Times and permanent special guests on

advisory opinions are a legal podcast at the dispatch.

And we've also got Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the dispatch and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

Jonah and David are here for a special dispatch left right and center

crossover episode.

The three of us consider ourselves conservatives,

but what does that mean to us and other people?

Is conservative the same thing as Republican?

Was it ever?

We'll get to some of the pressing issues of the week, but we also hope to explore some of

those questions.

Hey guys.

Hey Sarah, hey David.

Jonah.

To kick things off, I'd like to start with an answer Liz Cheney gave earlier this month on ABCs this week.

I've never voted for a Democrat.

Wow. And it tells you, I think, the stakes in this election.

You know, Donald Trump presents a challenge and a threat fundamentally to the

Republic. We see it on a daily basis as somebody who was willing to use violence in order to attempt to seize power, to stay in power,

someone who represents unrecoverable catastrophe, frankly frankly in my view and we have to do everything possible

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