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Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

Balancing Principle with Pragmatism | 7/18/24

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Many issues and events surrounding the RNC have brought out important debates among conservatives concerning the balance of principle with the need to appeal to voters. Today, I discuss the need for balance with most principles. We’re not all about workers or corporations. We’re not all about one group or the other. We have fixed principles that are for the “whole of the people,” that you pragmatically present to appeal to various people. But what we don’t need is an overindulgence of an extreme ascetic cosplay to pander to a specific group, all the while using the other extreme as the straw man to justify ridiculous behavior. I also show how Republicans continue to obsess over symbolism, cosplay, and abstract right-wing theory, while in practice, they are ironically continuing the same business as usual.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Politics without the soap opera, with unfiltered constitutional conservative truth.

0:06.0

The Conservative Review with Daniel Burns.

0:09.0

And welcome back, fellow American Patriots and Minutemen standing at the ready to fight anew for the issues

0:15.2

that matter in the way they matter at the time they matter.

0:18.6

No platitudes, no group think, no false dichotomies, just the unvarnished truth here at CR Podcast.

0:26.1

Your host Daniel Harwitz, back here today for the never ending long week.

0:30.4

It is Thursday, but it feels like, I don't know, Saturday, 10 times over here on the 18th of July.

0:37.0

Again, a lot to cover, kind of taking a different direction. I was going to go back to the, you know, summary of the assassination attempt and all the crazy information, but still with the convention ongoing and, you know, J.D. Vint arising ideas different things going on there's

0:56.4

foundational principles but as always not just in the abstract, but particularly in the concrete practical application to the life we live the policies we supposedly seek that I think are too important to ignore

1:11.9

So again, you know, we'll get back to our regular

1:14.3

programming next week. It's not every week that you have stuff like this going on.

1:20.6

It's kind of funny as I'm recording here. I'm seeing that Hulk Hogan is

1:26.0

scheduled to speak at the RNC tonight and who doesn't like Hulk? We all grew up with him.

1:39.0

And genuinely I We all the book, and genuinely, I'm literally not making fun out of it. I have nothing against it. I actually think it's a good idea. I just think it's funny because I've been saying all along that the Republican Party is like

1:45.1

Hulk Hogan and the WWE that at a time that we need Mike Tyson we're we're doing more Hulk

1:51.5

Hogan now that's not a rip on Hulk that was his job to entertain with wrestling,

1:57.1

but this is the real world. So I just think it's kind of ironic that in many respects

2:02.3

WWE is exactly what you're seeing

2:06.0

and exactly the problem.

2:10.0

So it's kind of a, you know, a nuanced, subtle, hilarious rip on the GOP, but there's no self-awareness that that's what they're about.

2:20.0

So yeah, you know, we're watching the convention. I'll comment on JD's speech, what JD is about, the general sort of mood and tenor of conservative commentators and thinkers or not thinkers and where we're

2:37.4

headed and all through the thesis today is really abstract national conservatism

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