Friends and Enemies

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

I argue that in the culture war—amid Christianity’s collapse (only 18% of Zoomers remain deeply religious), the Left’s 2020 tyranny, and the Right’s self-destructive infighting (as Matt Walsh warns)—Christian conservatives may engage in limited co-belligerency with unlikely allies to defend our way of life, but only when three pillars remain intact: intention (preserving inherited order against existential threats, per Scruton, Abram’s pagan rescue of Lot in Genesis 14, and Nehemiah’s wall); identity (Schmitt’s friend/enemy distinction, rejecting liberalism’s failed pluralism and decisionism’s tyranny, favoring federalism); and integrity (unbreakable moral lines—Daniel’s refusal, Joseph’s flight, and Paradine’s rejection of witchcraft in “The Valley Was Still”). Any alliance that demands we compromise conscience, blur our distinctions, or induce sin is strictly forbidden—no exceptions.

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0:59.7	You don't let bad actors near the steering wheel.
1:02.3	If you want to accept their vote, sure.
1:03.9	Joab was a good military leader, but he got bad as soon as he tried to step outside of his lane and be the king.
1:11.0	You don't want people that don't have the virtue necessary to lead in leadership positions.
1:15.2	So don't make them the commanders.
1:16.6	I don't care if they're billionaires.
1:17.9	I don't care.
1:18.8	If they want to be part of the movement, okay, you can take a seat or you could be a corporal over here or something.
1:26.1	But this is one of the problems that a lot of right-leaning people have done over the years.
1:43.5	Welcome to the conversations. I'm at a podcast. I'm the host John Harris. It is a late night here in Houston, Texas. I'm going to be flying back home tomorrow morning. And I accidentally had a little too much caffeine. I should have tempered it just a little bit. So I'm up. And I figured since I'm up, I'll give you a little bit of an update.
2:02.4	I haven't had an update for over a week now. And I will present to you some of the things
2:08.3	that I've been talking about across the country. And primarily it's been on the friend-enemy
2:13.4	distinction. So I think that's a topic that's more on people's minds now than when I was
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