LIVE: JVL & Heather Cox Richardson SHRED the GOP’s Fake “Conservatism”
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Is Trump and MAGA the inevitable endpoint to conservatism in America? JVL was joined by Heather Cox Richardson to discuss the state of conservatism in American politics.
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| 0:20.1 | Guys, I'm JVL from the bulwark, |
| 0:22.0 | and I am here with the great Heather Cox, Richardson, |
| 0:25.0 | professor of history at Boston College, Maynard. |
| 0:29.9 | Do you remember you're old enough? You and I are, we're close in age. |
| 0:34.1 | The Senate Night Live sketch, What's the Best Way with the New England? |
| 0:38.1 | It's like the Jeopardy with the Three New England people giving directions. |
| 0:41.8 | I don't, but it's kind of a trope. And, you know, there's something to it. |
| 0:46.2 | I think Glenn Close played the main lady, and she was like, |
| 0:49.0 | wow, you're going to go down the road past the blueberry stand. And anyway. |
| 0:53.1 | Oh, no. No, the worst ever was there is a very back way to get from here to Portland that is completely unmarked. |
| 1:01.0 | And it helps you get away from the coastline when there's a lot of traffic here in the summer. |
| 1:07.0 | And the person who gave me instructions literally, one of the turns was right after so-and-so's tractor. I'm like, he's going to move the stupid tractor, dude. And he's like, well, I don't know how else to tell it to you. You know, he lives in a white, in a white cape. If that helps, I'm like, in Maine, no, that doesn't help either. And yes, the answer was I got incredibly lost, and now that we have GPS, I don't have to worry about |
| 1:32.1 | where he classed tractor. |
| 1:34.3 | All right, so I wanted to sit down and talk with you about the history of conservatism and about |
| 1:39.9 | where modern conservatism, as we're experiencing right now, |
| 1:44.6 | which is different from how we experienced it 20 years ago when I first came into the adult world, |
| 1:50.4 | how it got here and whether this was inevitable or contingent. |
| 1:57.3 | Before we do that, because God knows, the world is always with us, and we can't just look back at history. |
| 2:03.0 | So the Charlie Kirk thing has happened, the terrible murder of him, it's awful. |
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