On Death Threats | The Roundtable Ep. 36 Segment 1

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Calling for the death of your political opponents is wrong, right? Right. Well, The Berggruen Institute’s Nils Gilman seems to think calling for death is acceptable if the target is a deplorable such as Claremont senior fellow Mike Anton. Our editors deplore this troubling development.

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0:00.0	Hey, We still can't bind away.
0:24.0	Nothing lasts forever even though November last forever. Even go no memory.
0:29.0	Welcome, everyone. Welcome everyone once again to the Roundtable the editors and publishers podcast for the
0:34.6	American Mind here at the Claremont Institute I'm your host Ryan Williams
0:37.2	president of the Claremont Institute publisher of the Claremont Review books and
0:40.4	the American Mind I'm joined by the full quotient of our folks, Matthew Peterson,
0:45.6	Vice President of Education, founding editor of the American Mind, James Pullis,
0:49.5	executive editor of the American Mind, Spencer Clavin, assistant editor of both the American Mind and the Claremont Review books, and David Barr joining us as always from the swamp via Zoom managing editor of the American Mind.
1:02.0	Well, this week we wanted to start with once again the continued coup and the analysis flowing from it.
1:10.0	But first, this very specific bit of business business which is related to the coup sort of tangentially
1:16.7	so this this somewhat loathsome human being in many ways proving himself to be over the first part of this week.
1:25.6	Nils Gilman, who's the vice president of programs, I think, at the Bergruin Institute, a weird little think tank,
1:37.0	which does, among other things, apologize for China, tweeted that Mike Anton, so, well, some context is in order, Nils was linking to a forward piece, forward.com that's a sort of
1:47.7	left-leaning Jewish publication that indicted Anton for anti-Semitism because in Mike Anton's the coming coup piece he talked about the transition Project's election war game
2:03.4	as operating on George Soros's dime,
2:06.3	as we all know, and as you perspicacious listeners
2:10.9	certainly know, to bring up Soros as any sort of
2:14.9	malign influence in American politics at any level has now been dubbed
2:19.0	anti-Semitic even though he's involved in politics at many levels in America and elsewhere.
2:25.2	Nils' tweet was that Mike, he linked to that piece from the forward, citing Mike's coming coup piece and he basically said
2:34.0	Michael Anton is the Robert Bracilic of our time and he deserves
2:38.6	his fate.
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