Dying Blue States & What Liberal Friends Are Whispering | Andrew Klavan | POLITICS | Rubin Report
The Rubin Report
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🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Andrew Klavan about his new book, "A Strange Habit of Mind"; what the final straw was that caused him to say, "Goodbye, California"; how the cost of living in California is destroying the middle class; how the progressive policies of Democrats like Gavin Newsom created California's homelessness crisis; his 2022 midterm election predictions; why Donald Trump was a good president but a horrible ex-president; whether he would support a DeSantis 2024 presidential run; what some of his centrist liberal friends are saying behind closed doors; how the COVID school closures awakened many moderates to the dangers of bad policy; how the dominance of secularism has created many societal problems; and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the host of the Andrew Klaven show on the daily |
| 0:11.5 | wire as well as author of the brand new book, A Strange Habit of Mind. |
| 0:16.8 | Andrew Klaven, welcome back to the Rubin report. |
| 0:19.8 | Great to see you there. |
| 0:20.8 | Andrew, you've done many things in your career. |
| 0:23.8 | Screenwriting, many books, daily wire. |
| 0:27.9 | What you opened for me during the Don't Burn This Country Book Tour, would you say that |
| 0:32.2 | was the highlight of the whole operation? |
| 0:34.4 | And why even continue working after that? |
| 0:37.1 | I asked, I struggled with that question after opening for your act. |
| 0:41.1 | I thought, you know, I'm now so covered in shame that maybe there's no possibility of |
| 0:46.6 | going on with any self-respect at all, but I've managed a little bit. |
| 0:50.0 | How many books have you written? |
| 0:51.1 | Every time I bring you on, I ask you how many books, and I'm still not even sure how |
| 0:54.2 | many books. |
| 0:55.2 | It's a lot of books. |
| 0:56.2 | The last book, when they published it, they said it was my 36th, so I'm just going to |
| 1:01.3 | go with that. |
| 1:02.3 | Wow. |
| 1:03.3 | I mean, that is really something. |
| 1:04.5 | Do you feel like each one, when you finish a book, do you feel like it's your last, and |
| 1:08.9 | then suddenly something in the well, there's some more in the well, or how do you feel usually? |
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