French Friday: The Trump Verdict, Flawed Heroes, & Shogun

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The verdict is in and Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts in the hush money trial. Skye Jethani and David French discuss the political implications of the guilty verdict. While neither believe the verdict will have any impact on Trump’s base, David thinks it could erode support among supporters on the bubble, but Skye remains unconvinced. Then, they discuss how we should address the legacies of historical heroes who left behind complex and sometimes troubling legacies. Is it appropriate to honor and celebrate certain aspects of these figures, or should their significant flaws compel us to dismiss them entirely? Plus, Skye and David talk about their new favorite tv show, Shogun.

0:00 - Theme Song

0:18 - Episode Starts

0:47 - Trump Verdict

7:27 - Who’s Actually Energizing Their Base?

16:22 - Justice Alito and the Flag

23:08 - The Politics of Officials Flying Flags

29:47 - The Complexity of American Historical Figures

41:40 - Facing the Sins of the Fathers Through Maturity

47:06 - Shogun and Cultural Divide

1:01:10 - End Credits

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0:00.0	Guess what day it is. It's French Friday, it's French Friday,
0:05.0	it's French Friday, so grab your fries and say hooray.
0:09.0	David French is here to play on French Friday.
0:13.2	It's French Friday.
0:17.8	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode
0:19.9	of French Friday with David French.
0:21.5	David, good to have you here. Thanks for coming back.
0:24.0	Thanks for having me, Sky, and I'm just going to apologize to listeners. I don't normally sound like this.
0:29.0	This is what slight flu, COVID or whatever you know whatever kind of malady
0:38.0	afflicting me sounds like so well we appreciate you being here anyway and I'll try not to work you too hard and you can give short answers if you need to.
0:48.0	We gotta start off though with the Trump verdict.
0:50.4	We are recording this on Friday morning, on Thursday evening we got the verdict. He's guilty on 34 counts of fraud.
0:57.0	There's a lot out there. Everyone's analyzing this. You did a live stream last night for advisory opinions with
1:03.9	Sarah Isger and I want to direct people there to get into kind of the legal
1:08.0	analysis but I'm I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the political
1:11.6	implications of this verdict.
1:14.1	Does this change the calculus on the election in any way?
1:17.7	I think it does, actually, Skye, and I'll explain why.
1:21.1	Now, obviously you cannot go to Twitter or any form of
1:26.5	social media and get any sense at all that this is changing anybody.
1:30.8	It's Democrats are celebrating, Republicans are furious, the people in the
1:35.1	middle are like, well okay I have worries about this case, but also he really did a lot of
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