Author and Journalist David Frum talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay about His New Book Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Former Bush speech writer David From talks to Jonathan Kay about the damage done by the Trump presidency and the way forward for America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.3	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,
0:18.8	associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by
0:24.2	visiting Patreon.com forward slash quillet and becoming a monthly patron. By
0:29.1	becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:32.4	Welcome to the quillet. patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:34.0	Welcome to the Quillett podcast. I'm Jonathan Kay.
0:37.0	Throughout Donald Trump's presidency,
0:40.0	David Frum has emerged as one of Trump's most relentless and incisive critics from the conservative
0:45.1	side.
0:46.1	Through his articles for the Atlantic, his on-air commentary, and his widely followed Twitter
0:50.9	account, Frum has debunked Trump's claims, excoriated his
0:54.8	borish style, and criticized his policies. In 2018 he expanded his critique
1:00.9	into a book, Trumpocracy, the corruption of the American Republic, and now in
1:05.8	2020 he's come out with a sequel, Trump Apocalypse, Restoring American Democracy.
1:12.4	In late May, just as Americans were first taken to the streets
1:15.4	in protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, David Frum spoke to me on the phone
1:20.2	about his new book. Here are excerpts from our conversation. Is the market for
1:26.3	this book conservative readers who maybe are looking for an alternative or do you
1:31.9	have a broader audience in mind for this?
1:33.6	The book is dedicated to the conservatives, libertarians, and Republicans of Never Trump.
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