Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. My name is John Harris. We are going to

watch a short clip from David Rubin, the quote and quote, quote conservative commentator I know he is conservative by modern

standards I suppose and you're going to find him just look at where he is a guest. Look at the kinds of people

that he spends time with. The clip that I'm going to play for you is very revealing in my opinion

of where conservatism, and I don't mean as a philosophy, because I think we've left that long behind,

conservative philosophy.

I think whatever we're in now, the new right is untethered.

It's in opposition to progressivism by trying to conserve an

earlier form of progressivism. That's what I'm seeing. And this just highlights it so much. I'm not saying

there aren't genuine conservatives that are rooted in something deeper than that, but it's not the ones that seem to have

much of the influence and so this clip from David Rubin is quite revealing and

then we're gonna read a a section. They didn't have

clips back then but a section from a speech. I'm sure if they had cameras it

would have been recorded but it is from Edmund Burke, the great conservative, many consider him the father of modern conservatism,

or at least one of the first identifiable figures in Parliament as a

conservative and in fact you'll even hear today some people refer to themselves I've even used the

phrase sometimes a Berkyan conservative I'm a Berkyan conservative and so for those who are the nerds that really like tracing things and Reed

Russell Kirk and those guys they'll know exactly who Edmund Burke is and they'll know

exactly why he's such an important figure to the philosophy of conservatism

Anglo-American conservatism

Burke Gives us Burke gives us a glimpse into what has been the foundation of conservatism, a foundational belief of conservatism, and then the foundation in that foundational belief for hundreds of years for centuries.

You couldn't disagree with this really and be a conservative, but yet most of the blue checkmark

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