On Vibes and Crises

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Voters weighing actual policy positions? A man can dream. No, it’ll be vibes—not issues—driving voters to the polls in November. Jonah invites Seth Masket, director of the Center on American Politics at the University of Denver, on today’s episode of The Remnant to commiserate over the sorry status of the current American electorate, Sister Souljah strategies, and the lack of centrist Democrats. Show Notes: —Seth’s newsletter —Why anti-Biden books aren't selling —Seth's previous appearance on The Remnant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:17.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you diggah? Go Jinca! Ging! Geegga!
0:24.0	Greetings your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by
0:31.0	The Dispatch and dispatch media.
0:33.7	Very excited for today's guest.
0:34.9	He is not a first timer.
0:36.2	I believe he's a second timer.
0:38.0	And I'll tell you the genesis of this is I wanted to write a column for the LA Times about how 2024 is shaping up to be a
0:47.0	vibes election rather than an issues election and it feels a lot like 1992 to me and while I was googling around for some data and stuff his
0:58.2	sub stack which is great it's called Tusk came up and that's and it was all on this point. So I'm grateful to Seth
1:06.2	Masgett from the University of from the University of Denver. He was a
1:12.2	political scientist.
1:14.0	He was last on when he talked about party stuff and all that.
1:17.2	People know my thing about how parties are broken.
1:19.7	We wrote a book called Learning from Loss, the Democrats 2016 to 2020.
1:23.9	He also wrote the inevitable party, why attempts to kill the party system fail?
1:29.2	Well, that may have reached its shelf life.
1:32.3	And he's working on a new book about the Republican Party
1:37.4	in the age of Trump and how all this happened and I'm looking forward to that and
1:42.1	we'll have them back on for that and that's going to be called at least the working title the elephants in the room
1:46.9	So with that Seth Maske it welcome back to their remnants. Thanks so much for having me on so why don't we just sort of start where I mentioned it in the intro?
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