Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Writer David Frum Discuss Political Courage and Standing Up For Your Beliefs
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🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Ryan and conservative pundit David Frum talk about how it feels to be a conservative who opposes Donald Trump, the limitations that political correctness imposes on our culture, and more.
David Frum is a journalist and conservative political commentator who is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic. Frum worked as a speechwriter for the second Bush administration and coined the term “Axis of Evil.” He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, Canada’s National Post, Tablet, and numerous other publications, and is also the author of several books such as Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy and Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic.
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| 2:27.2 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. You know, these are sort of strange, unprecedented times, not just because of the pandemic, not just because of the protest that have erupted all over the country. |
| 2:41.2 | But just generally the sort of the political course that America has been on for the last several years is historic and strange and surreal and deeply alarming in many ways. And yet when I say that it's unprecedented, the irony is that it's sort of not unprecedented this mirrors the demagogues of ancient Greece, it mirrors the political gridlock of ancient Rome. |
| 3:05.2 | So when I talk about politics, of course, I have my own political opinions and sometimes people listen, get upset for me, daring to express them. |
| 3:13.2 | You know, we've talked a little bit about snowflakes here, but I'm interested in exploring what's happening today in the context of how it connects with or reveals patterns from the past. |
| 3:26.2 | And vice versa, I want to look at the lessons that ancient Greece and ancient Rome and Cato and Ceneca and Marcus are really us all learned and, you know, how does that give us clarity, you know, today here in the 21st century, what, what did America go through in the trial of the Civil War in the founding of the American Republican, how does that reflect on where we are today. |
| 3:48.2 | So my guest today, I'm having a conversation with David from David from is a great writer for the Atlantic is a longtime journalist. |
| 3:57.2 | He was a speechwriter in the Bush administration, he's worked in conservative politics for many years as well, but he's been a prominent voice, a prominent critic of Trump. |
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