Paul Gottfried on the State of the Conservative Movement
Conversations That Matter
Jon Harris
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Paul Gottfried joins the podcast to talk about the current lay of the political landscape and what must be done to turn Pottesrville into Bedford Falls again.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone to the Conversations That Matter podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | I'm your host, John Harrison. |
| 0:16.9 | We have someone actually we've had on the podcast before today, a reoccurring guest who I respect very deeply, and I appreciate his work, especially in Chronicles magazine when I'm privileged to get that magazine at my home. And that is Dr. Paul Godfrey. Dr. Godfrey, we appreciate you being on the podcast again to discuss conservatism. Thank you. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you for having me on again. |
| 0:54.7 | My pleasure. And, you know, we were just talking about your life a little bit, and you have 14 books that you've written as well as scholarly articles. There's an anthology coming out. You can find all this on Amazon if anyone wants to go check out your work. And you are still the editor-in-chief of Chronicles magazine which is probably the only magazine that I recommend people subscribe to. |
| 1:00.7 | Not a lot of people get magazines anymore. |
| 1:02.6 | That's I think the only one I get. |
| 1:05.5 | So and I look forward to it. |
| 1:07.4 | So thank you for joining us. |
| 1:08.7 | And the question today that after the Trump victory |
| 1:13.4 | is, uh, what is conservatism? What does it mean? Uh, this was a question before Trump's victory, |
| 1:19.7 | but Trump has an opportunity to, I think, give his version of whatever that, whatever the answer |
| 1:26.5 | that question is now that he's in power, |
| 1:29.1 | essentially, on the Republican Party. So maybe the first thing, before we even get there, |
| 1:33.3 | maybe your impressions of the election might just be good in what you think this means for the |
| 1:38.1 | future, and then we can get into that. Well, my wife predicted that Trump would win despite the polls. |
| 1:45.7 | And I think Trafalgar square, was it Trafalgar polling? |
| 1:51.8 | And the person who leads it, Robert Cahili, pointed out that very often polls are used |
| 1:58.3 | not to reflect popular opinion, but to affect popular opinion. And I think this is |
| 2:03.2 | certainly true. And I think that, you know, Trump's victory did not surprise me all that much. |
| 2:11.6 | I was happy that he was able to pull in the Senate with him. He should have 53 seats that the Democrats |
| 2:18.3 | don't manage to defraud John McCormick of his seat that he won. They're visibly engaging |
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