David French Is Wrong (Or Is He?) | Roundtable

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Let's talk about voting. Sarah, Jonah, and Megan McArdle get epistemological breaking down David French's column endorsing Kamala Harris and realize they can't even agree on the the purpose of voting. What kind of Democrat will Kamala Harris run as, anyway? The Agenda: —David French: To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris —Jonah: Voting Isn’t A Window Into the Soul —Why Megan is voting for Harris —Jonah has lost Sarah —Can “Obamaism” save Democrats? —Harris’ policy platform will be “light on detail” —Blaming greedy capitalists —“Has the U.S. beat inflation, Mr. President?” —Will the DNC boost Harris? —Should journalists publish hacked information? Show Notes: —Matt Yglesias on greedflation —Eric Levitz on greedflation —Scott Lincicome on greedflation The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Isger. That's Jonah Goldberg and Megan
0:06.0	Ricardo's here again. Hi Megan. Hi Sarah. We have to include Jonah and some of this, all right? We're not just going to ignore him like we did last week.
0:28.0	But we can beat up on him as much as we want.
0:31.0	Can I be in your tree fort?
0:34.0	No boys allowed.
0:37.0	Actually, Jonah, believe it or not,
0:39.0	I want to start with you because you
0:45.0	know, because you published both a thought-provoking and potentially, you know,
0:47.0	physical fight-provoking piece this week
0:51.0	about how you don't care about voting at all. What are you doing here?
0:58.9	Well, physical fight provoking with who? David French? French.
1:03.0	Eh.
1:04.0	What David, David's like the Amish guy that they rub ice cream on his face in in witness.
1:10.0	He's not gonna, he's not gonna punch me. me. Didn't he like go to a war zone?
1:17.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, but he's not going to punch me by something I wrote.
1:20.0	I mean, that's just not going to happen.
1:22.0	Fair.
1:23.0	Okay so David French writes this piece titled,
1:26.0	To Save Conservatism from itself,
1:28.0	I am voting for Harris.
1:31.0	He goes through how his various conservative beliefs haven't changed, but I'm going to vote for
1:37.4	Kamala Harris in 2024 and ironically enough I'm doing it to try to save conservatism.
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