Ep 1351 | We Need This Wake-Up Call Before the Midterms | Kevin Roberts
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the right almost immediately fractured. Now we have all these different factions and it's hard to know what the future is of conservatism. What is the future of America? Do the midterms even matter? Today we've got the president of the Heritage Foundation Kevin Roberts to give us the lay of the land, give us some action steps, and to help us know what's next and how we can get involved. |
| 0:25.9 | You're going to love this episode and be so encouraged and educated by it. |
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| 0:39.0 | Kevin Roberts, thanks so much for joining me. I really appreciate it. |
| 0:49.9 | It is a pleasure. You know that all of us at Heritage think the world of you. Thanks for |
| 0:53.8 | what you do. |
| 0:54.1 | Well, likewise. The feeling is mutual. So I thought there's no better person to ask about the current state of conservatism. |
| 1:00.8 | And to me, it is not really a simple question, especially post-Charlie's assassination. |
| 1:07.5 | There's just a lot of, I don't know, growing pains, dissensions, fractures going on. So what is |
| 1:13.2 | your lay of the land from your vantage point? Lay of the land in sort of two big ways. Number one is |
| 1:20.9 | a lot, maybe most of those pain points, fissures, come from the conservative movement growing. |
| 1:30.4 | And so one thing that's a silver lining to what is some very frustrating and unseemly commentary, especially online, is that it's |
| 1:36.0 | because it's growing. And therefore, and you know, I'm going to look at this as a historian, |
| 1:40.8 | when any ideological movement grows, that the proverbial problem of a big tent becomes |
| 1:46.7 | really difficult. But the second thing that I would say to tell you something that you and your |
| 1:50.2 | audience know well is that this is aggravated by social media. Not everyone on social media, |
| 1:56.9 | but the fact that we can fire off something without fully thinking about it then just inflames those tensions. |
| 2:02.9 | And so the upshot for me, for us at Heritage, because our ethos is not just to add and multiply to make the movement bigger, but to make it more cohesive, is to try to appeal to those principles, those concepts that cohere almost everyone, we might |
| 2:19.5 | have some differences of opinion on how we get there. |
| 2:21.7 | For example, Heritage's family policy paper. |
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