Jumping the Shark | Ep. 3, Segment 4: Our Editors Unleashed
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The sun is long gone beneath the Claremont hills, the last of the whisky is long gone from the bottle, and our editors are long gone past the point of cogency. Plus: Spartan love (not that kind), goat screams, and vitalism versus rubber chickens.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is the round table and |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is the round table and the table is still round, right guys? Oh, it's round. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, it's round. Oh, it's round. Oh, it's round. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's talk about vitalism. Let's talk about the problem of modern |
| 0:29.5 | conservatism. I hate even to say the word and the right and I want to start with something that happened |
| 0:36.5 | as we were recording before we were recording this day this week Michael Brendan Doherty was talking about Mitt Romney and the fact |
| 0:48.0 | that he voted for one article of impeachment. |
| 0:52.5 | And so he said, just remember, |
| 0:54.8 | an extraordinary jester, |
| 0:57.6 | Romney argued that Trump was totally unfit |
| 0:59.7 | for the presidency and then interviewed to be his Secretary of State, the famous picture that we're all aware of, |
| 1:08.0 | these great moral stands, says Doherty, have an unbelievably short shelf life. |
| 1:16.3 | And so all of a sudden, Ross doubted comes in, |
| 1:20.0 | you know, not an enemy, someone we respect and he says a willingness to interpose |
| 1:25.4 | yourself between the unfit president and American foreign policy isn't a |
| 1:30.6 | betrayal of any moral standard. |
| 1:33.0 | And then, unfortunately for Ross, actually, David French comes in and he says, |
| 1:37.0 | agreed, Ross. |
| 1:38.0 | And, you know, then I just, you know, whatever my own two cents, |
| 1:42.0 | I had to get in and just say, let me get this straight the honorable thing to do because |
| 1:45.8 | MIT is honorable this week among all the people who think he's honorable and Brutus is an. Yes, Brutus is a very honorable man. |
| 1:54.5 | Mitt Romney is an honorable man. I said let me give this straight. The honorable thing to do is try to work for and then |
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