Jonah Goldberg: Defending "Conservatism" in the Trump Era

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🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Chuck Todd sits down with conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg to talk about the effect that the Trump Presidency will have on what it means to be a Conservative Republican.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the priest.
0:03.6	Meet the priest.
0:04.3	The priest.
0:05.3	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:10.8	My guest today, Jonah Goldberg.
0:12.3	He's a conservative columnist, a senior editor, national review, and a fellow at the American
0:17.2	Enterprise Institute.
0:19.1	He's also the author of a new book, The Suicide of the West, How the Rebirth of Tribalism,
0:24.0	Populism, and Nationalism, and Identity Politics is destroying American democracy.
0:29.5	And an essay adapted from the book, he wrote about the state of his brand of conservative
0:33.5	thought this way.
0:35.1	Much of the conservative movement that William F. Buckley and National Review helped create
0:39.1	has resorted to assertion over argument, invective over reason.
0:43.2	I want my argument to persuade those who don't already agree with me on the left and
0:47.0	increasingly on the right.
0:49.3	Jonah, welcome to 1947.
0:51.9	It is great to be here.
0:54.2	So your podcast, you're always very funny, you're always very humorous, offer very little
0:57.6	insight.
0:58.8	That's always the goal, right?
1:00.0	That's totally the goal.
1:01.0	And to keep the nudity tasteful and integral to the plot.
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