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Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

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News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

David French joins to discuss upending the NATO alliance, attacks on the rule of law, and how the pardon power was one of the Founders' worst mistakes.

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Referred Works

The Federalist Papers – A collection of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, referenced in discussions about constitutional powers, particularly the presidency.
Anti-Federalist Papers ("An Old Whig" – Letter No. 5, 1787) – Cited as an early critique of the presidential pardon power and excessive executive authority.
Marbury v. Madison (1803) – A landmark U.S. Supreme Court case establishing judicial review, mentioned in the context of legal authority over the president.
U.S. Constitution – Indirectly referenced multiple times, particularly concerning executive powers, rule of law, and the balance of power.
Learned Hand’s Quote on Liberty –
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
- Quoted in reference to the fragility of democratic institutions.
DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) – A concept from psychology and sociology used to describe manipulative tactics, discussed in relation to political rhetoric.
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" (Film, 2022) – Referenced metaphorically to describe the chaotic state of global and domestic affairs.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone. Delighted you could join us today. It's a bit of a grim day news-wise,
0:10.1	and the only thing that makes it even close to tolerable is that I have, it's my guest,
0:15.8	my dear friend, David French, New York Times columnist, and one of...
0:22.4	David, close your ears.
0:23.6	I'm just going to praise you a little bit.
0:25.7	I mean, just one of the most brilliant but also humane and decent human beings in American
0:34.2	life today.
0:35.4	And gosh, I wish we could clone him.
0:39.0	Okay.
0:40.2	Now, before we began, David, you and I were exchanging,
0:47.3	exasperation doesn't quite cover it.
0:49.5	Yeah.
0:49.7	Disgust about the fact that just across the wires,
0:53.7	this morning is the news that Trump,
0:56.0	among the worthies that he thinks need his compassion and his attention in the world is Andrew
1:04.3	Tate.
1:05.7	That on top of the white South Africans, the Afrikaans people who he says have been very badly treated.
1:12.6	Everybody else, he's perfectly happy to treat very badly, but those people gain his love.
1:20.4	Andrew Tate, David.
1:23.1	Andrew Tate, set to what Stan trial in Romania for human trafficking and rape.
1:32.4	Yes.
1:33.5	No, I mean, it's not controversial that he's a pornographer.
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