Democrats Are Down Bad

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Chris Stirewalt remains in control of The Remnant throne whilst Jonah vision quests, and has brought another excellent guest to enlighten ye loyal listeners: William Galston, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and Wall Street Journal columnist. The two discuss the health of the constitutional order, the hardheadedness of the Democratic Party, and how progressives can actually sway public opinion. Show Notes: —Galston for the Wall Street Journal: “Trump, USAID, and the Rule of Law” —John Yoo for National Review: “Trump Has Launched a Necessary Fight Over the President’s Spending Discretion” The Remnant 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 Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:49.1	Can you digger? Diggin' Midweek greetings,
0:59.1	Remnant enthusiasts.
1:01.8	It is not Jonah Goldberg.
1:03.0	It is I, Chris Dyerwalt, still in my master's stead,
1:06.7	here on the mightiest podcast in the dispatch universe.
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1:17.3	And the thing about the political wilderness,
1:23.6	when you are in the political wilderness,
1:26.8	you are presumably looking for the way home,
1:31.2	looking for a way back to civilization. But what you find along the way are people. You find
1:39.7	along the way people and you find along the way ideas that might lead you home. Right now, Democrats are
1:45.9	wrestling with the question of who will lead them out of the wilderness and how will they do this.
1:52.3	So they're thinking about politicians. But I posit to you that it's really ideas. It's really about
1:58.1	ideas and it's about ways of thinking and ways of being and that the
2:02.4	leaders fit into the space after that right now democrats who would have who would have
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