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Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Western elites have run into a recurring predicament over the past decade: In a democracy, you can't abolish the voters. Populist coalitions are on the march in Europe, and while they've yet to take over their respective governments like their American counterparts, they aren't going away. So Henry Olsen returns to the podcast to give us the scoop on everybody from the Romanians, who just had their delayed election, to the Poles and Hungarians who have some coming up, along with Reform UK and AfD. We also dig into Trump's so-far successful 'Dirty Harry' theory of justice and the limitations any politician's gotta know — including the transformational ones.

Plus, Lileks and Hayward yap about the latest with Harvard, the "stochastic terrorism" that killed two young Jews in DC, and Original Sin...

- Soundbite from this week's open: UK PM Kier Starmer pivots on immigration

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0:00.0	All right, we're going to leave you now.
0:01.0	I'm going to make a bunch of Andor references, so I know that would be just so totally over your head.
0:06.2	I don't want to embarrass you.
0:07.3	Well, look, I'm cool.
0:09.1	Hip, hip, my brain.
0:12.2	Make him go away, guys.
0:16.4	Ask not what your country can do for you.
0:21.2	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:24.1	Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.
0:29.5	It's the Rikoshae podcast with Stephen Hayward.
0:31.9	Not Charles C.W. Cook, alas, but I'm James Lonex with you.
0:34.4	And we're going to talk to Henry Olson about the events in Europe and elsewhere.
0:37.9	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:39.7	Now, in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important.
0:48.2	Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers.
0:52.1	So yes, I believe in this. I believe we need to reduce immigration
0:57.3	significantly. Welcome, everybody. It's the Ruricey podcast number 742. I'm James Laleckx in
1:05.2	Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm joined by not Charles C.W. Cook, alas, last we heard of him,
1:09.4	his roof was leaking. So for all we know,
1:12.1	he is standing in a flooded house, bailing door. He's just off having lunch somewhere in sunny
1:17.4	Florida. Stephen Hayward in California, I presume. Stephen, how are you today? I'm good.
1:23.3	Busy week. It's hard to keep up with everything. So much stuff to do. Well, we could go
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