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Know Your Enemy

Grateful Dead Conservatives (w/ Sophie Haigney) [TEASER]

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Matt and Sam are joined by writer/editor Sophie Haigney to discuss why (some) conservatives love the Grateful Dead — and why we do too. Subscribe on Patreon to hear the rest!

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0:00.0

I do think like a huge thing for why the dead

0:04.0

has remained so popular over this course

0:06.3

of years and so many different iterations.

0:08.5

And it's just the nature of the concerts is so crazy.

0:13.0

You're not going to a concert that, you know,

0:15.0

you show up, you wait around a while,

0:17.2

and then the concert starts and you leave.

0:18.7

It's ideally kind of like a full day experience

0:22.3

where you go to the lot for a while.

0:23.9

And you're just kind of like in this crazy collective experience

0:27.2

that I think there are a lot of parallels you can draw,

0:29.6

you know, pretty easy parallels with like certain types

0:32.9

of religious experiences, sports.

0:35.1

Trump rallies.

0:36.0

Trump rallies, you know, huge groups of people

0:39.0

having a really good time, having a collective experience,

0:42.6

that kind of yearning for that has always been there.

0:45.3

And I think crosses a lot of political boundaries

0:48.4

and even can be coded kind of conservative.

0:50.8

Well, there's a seeking of transcendence, you know,

0:53.1

all these people from all these different walks of life,

0:55.6

different white walks of life are there.

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