JD Vance, Project 2025, and How the Right Got Weird

Offline with Jon Favreau

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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All of a sudden, nearly every Democrat in the country has started calling out Republicans for being really damn weird. And with JD Vance’s pronatalist views and Trump’s insistence that Kamala Harris isn’t actually Black, the GOP isn’t beating the allegations. When did Republican rhetoric go from fear-inducing, to groan-inducing? Jon is joined by Laura K. Field, a researcher and political theorist who recently published a piece in POLITICO on the topic, and who is writing a book about the evolution of the Republican party. She breaks down why GOP weirdness is tied to the emergence of the “New Right,” how JD Vance exemplifies this moment, and how to prevent the movement from capturing more power in American politics.

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0:00.0	She's probably worse than Hillary, though they might not have the kind of instinctive animus that they did for her.
0:06.8	But I also think it's their worst nightmare in terms of the people in the New Right who are smart
0:12.1	probably understand that this is really a big challenge
0:15.6	and a liability and that this stuff is so racist and so misogynist.
0:20.7	The whole movement kind of is that it's going to be hard to rein that in and they probably need to if they want to win.
0:27.0	The funny thing about Kamla is she's not miserable. She's very happy person. She's not a miserable cat lady.
0:33.3	Which they also hate, yeah.
0:34.8	They hate it, and they cannot sort of wrap their heads
0:39.1	around women having power.
0:41.4	So it's very, it's very, it's very it's very it's very it's very tricky for them. I think they're in a real
0:47.0	bind. I'm John Favreau welcome to offline. Hey everyone, you just heard from today's guest, writer and political theorist
0:58.8	Laura Field.
0:59.9	So you may have noticed something new about the 2024 campaign recently, and I'm not talking
1:04.5	about the Democratic nominee.
1:05.9	Over the last few weeks, lots of Democrats from Kamala Harris down to the shit posters,
1:11.5	have started calling Republicans out for being really
1:14.0	fucking weird and let's be honest the party is not beating the allegations
1:18.5	from J.D. Vance's war on childless cat ladies to libbs of Tiktocks, obsession with trans kids, to Trump's insistence
1:26.0	that Kamla Harris actually isn't black, the Republican Party's priorities have felt increasingly
1:31.8	out of line with the views of the vast majority of Americans.
1:36.0	But when did they get this weird and extreme?
1:38.8	Where did all these ideas come from?
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