Expectations vs Reality in Congress | Jonah Goldberg

Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw

Dan Crenshaw

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4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Jonah Goldberg returns for a conversation about everything wrong with the GOP and Congress today, and how we can fix it. They talk about the populist stranglehold over political institutions, broken incentive structures in the primary system, expectations vs reality in Congress, the media industrial complex, and much more.

Jonah Goldberg is the host of The Remnant podcast, Senior Fellow and Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at American Enterprise Institute, and the author of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy. Follow him on X at @JonahDispatch.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created.
0:04.2	As a member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.2	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast.
0:10.1	For insights into the issues.
0:11.5	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all,
0:14.2	in-depth discussions, breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold, we hold these truths.
0:20.1	We hold these truths.
0:21.2	With Dan Krenshaw. The ankle has landed.
0:23.0	Welcome back everybody.
0:24.0	We have a repeat offender back on the podcast.
0:27.0	Someone I love talking to, I love listening to because he's a great writer,
0:31.0	has great insights on politics and history, and the philosophy of conservatism, what it means, and somebody I've always liked to listen to and read.
0:42.8	Jonah Goldberg, Jonah, thanks for being on.
0:44.8	Hey, it's great to be back.
0:47.1	So we were just chatting it up last time.
0:49.9	It's been actually a while.
0:51.5	Doesn't seem that way, but it's been a while since last time we talked and you were recalling that last time we had our
0:58.0	Podcast. I think we cross-posted on each of our, and your broadcast is still the remnant or do you have others you have so many things going on but it's the remnant I think is the main yeah yeah and we cross posted that great conversation on that one but then I went to surgery and went blind.
1:14.3	So, ha, it was your fault.
1:15.9	Yeah, that's all I felt guilty.
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