ICYMI - Jonah Goldberg on "Suicide of the West" and Preserving the American Experiment

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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"Suicide of the West" author Jonah Goldberg argues the rise of both liberal and conservative populism threatens to undermine America's fundamental ideals.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.5	Ow!
0:04.0	My guest tonight is a senior editor at National Review,
0:08.0	an LA Times columnist, American Enterprise Institute scholar,
0:11.5	and bestselling author whose latest book is called,
0:14.0	Suicide of the West,
0:15.0	How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism,
0:17.0	Nationalism, and Identity Politics
0:19.0	is destroying American democracy.
0:20.5	Please welcome Jonah Goldberg.
0:22.0	I thought about pawing you up sort of a macron versus Trump kind of thing,
0:35.0	and getting all handsy, but I decided better.
0:37.0	We should have done that.
0:38.0	We should have done like a little handshake into a kiss,
0:40.0	into like a little moment, into a thing.
0:42.0	Yeah, and I could have like whispered,
0:43.0	I like your musk, which is the way I think he was saying to him at one point.
0:46.0	It felt like it, it felt like Trump's really into him,
0:48.0	which is something that is good for America, yes?
0:51.0	Yeah!
0:53.0	Maybe.
0:55.0	You know, it's good for America for us to get along with,
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