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The Andrew Klavan Show

Ep. 387 - Has the Right Surrendered the Culture?

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

4.822.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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For years, conservatives have been complaining that the left controls the culture and the culture controls politics. Now, the culture war is on: Has the right surrendered? Conservative film critic Christian Toto joins me to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, for years, the right has been complaining about the culture.

0:04.3

Andrew Breitbart used to say politics is downstream from culture, and that is absolutely true.

0:08.9

Just about everything you see that's happening started 20 years ago with the culture.

0:14.3

But now Donald Trump, a figure created by the culture, is actually fighting a war for the culture,

0:19.4

fighting back for the right in the culture, and the right has suddenly left the building.

0:24.3

Conservative film critic, Christian Toto of Hollywood in Toto,

0:27.8

will be here to discuss it all with me.

0:30.6

But first, every now and again, I like to do my little part to bring our divided country together,

0:36.9

by building bridges between conservatives like myself and the communist jerkweeds on the other side.

0:42.1

Today in that spirit of Breit Goodwill, I'd like to examine some of the major issues from both political perspectives,

0:48.9

the right and the one with all the knuckleheads.

0:51.8

Let's start with healthcare reform.

0:54.2

We on the right believe it's inherently dangerous to put government in control of healthcare,

0:58.9

the tragic problems of the VA are proof.

1:01.4

We think it violates the freedom of medical personnel to require them to work for government to term in wages,

1:06.7

and we think it strips freedom-loving Americans of the right and responsibility to decide how to take care of themselves.

1:13.9

On the left, they believe it was so sad when Jimmy Kimmel cried,

1:17.4

because he's so funny when he pretends to feud with Matt Damon,

1:20.5

and Jimmy in matter so cool, and Donald Trump is so mean that we should just make everything free,

1:25.8

like they do in Scandinavia or someplace.

1:28.8

So those are the healthcare arguments.

1:30.9

But what about the issue of climate change?

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