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The Realignment

Ep. 44: Joe Lonsdale, Free Speech is Under Attack

The Realignment

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Following up on his anti-Facebook boycott op-ed in The Washington Post, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir and founding partner at 8VC, joins The Realignment to argue that free speech and the public square are threatened by illiberalism at home and abroad.

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0:00.0

Saga and Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.

0:08.6

Now before we jump into the episode with Joe Lonstell,

0:11.1

reminder to rate the podcast five stars as we mentioned.

0:14.1

If you leave us a written five star review and you email a screenshot to realignment pod at gmail.com,

0:21.7

we will answer your question right here on here.

0:25.1

So we got a bunch of responses after our biology episode on top of the ones we got

0:30.0

Marco Rubio episode. So we're going to take them as before, one at a time.

0:34.1

So today's question is from William and it is what if anything, can the American right learn

0:41.1

from other right wing parties in Europe and Canada, for example, with Boris Johnson?

0:45.6

And what I would firstly say is that anyone looking to see the answer to this question

0:49.5

needs to go back to our interview with Nick Timothy. He was the chief of staff to the prime minister

0:54.5

of the United Kingdom, Theresa May from before Brexit. So I think he has a lot of interesting thoughts

0:59.4

on that. But yeah, Sagar, what do you think? I mean, there's so much that we can learn,

1:03.5

I think from Boris Johnson in particular, and actually Duda as well as the as he mentions in the

1:08.6

in the question. So look, I mean, what the European right has done is exactly what I've talked about

1:14.6

for so long, which is they have aligned with the social positions of their populace. And then

1:21.1

they have pursued economic policy, which is largely distributed to their entire population,

1:28.5

which entails a lot of different things as in strengthening their safety nets as in industrial

1:33.6

policy in order to boost the productive sectors of their economy. This is something which is just

1:39.5

so completely basic, but has a lot of enemies here in the United States. And why does it have enemies?

1:44.1

Well, look, there's some of it has to do with kind of the uniqueness of the way that our economy

1:48.4

is structured and how it's come to be. But I think a lot of the reason why is because of money

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