Cruel Kids and Theater Kids
The American Mind
Amanda Callanan
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The uphill battle to restore common sense continues with Trump’s executive orders against gender ideology and transition for minors. Meanwhile, a rebellion against the liberal establishment takes joyous shape among normalcy-craving youth. Pinehill Capital president and We the People podcast host Gates Garcia joins the guys to discuss these vibe shifts and the extremely hinged reaction from the Left as they struggle to meet the positivity, branding, and hype of the Right.
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on this episode of The Roundtable. |
| 0:03.0 | The people love brands because you can associate with a brand. |
| 0:06.3 | And for as long as I can remember, as far back as I can read, you know, the parties have |
| 0:10.0 | always been the brands. |
| 0:11.2 | Trump, to my knowledge, and we can debate this, is the first president that the man himself |
| 0:17.1 | has been the brand, or at least the movement that the president, the man has created, |
| 0:21.6 | has been the brand. |
| 0:22.6 | And the brand is MAGA. |
| 0:24.6 | People love brands. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'll give you, MAGA is a four-letter acronym. |
| 0:29.6 | I'll give you another one, FOMO, fear of missing out. |
| 0:32.6 | I think that Trump and MAGA has created a FOMO movement in this country. It's fun. You |
| 0:40.0 | didn't go to a Trump speech or a Trump rally. You went to a Trump event. It was like going to Woodstock. |
| 0:46.6 | Even if you didn't love the guy, you probably somewhat enjoyed being there and you felt like |
| 0:51.3 | you were missing out if you weren't in your town's arena with 25,000 |
| 0:54.8 | fans when that's what everybody was doing. And then you talk about FOMO if you're missing out, |
| 0:58.9 | every demographic moved in his direction. So he's grown the pot, he's grown the crowd. |
| 1:03.3 | We can say that this person mentioned African Americans where they pictured in the articles. |
| 1:08.1 | Whatever, they're joining. |
| 1:50.7 | Yeah. pictured in the articles, whatever. They're joining. Welcome once again to the roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors podcast here at the American Mind. I'm your host, Spencer Claven, associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and of course, |
| 1:58.2 | Cruel Kids editor of the American Mind in case there was ever any question. |
| 2:03.3 | I'm joined this week by managing editor Mike Sabo, publisher and president Ryan Williams, |
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