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🗓️ 10 May 2022
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0:00.0 | So this is something that I have to say. I was not particularly keen to watch. |
0:05.0 | Would not have chosen this one if it was just up to us, I would say. |
0:08.6 | Yeah, our superdelegate voters this month, for contemporary reasons, topical reasons, which I think are obvious, the superdelegates voted for us to do this. |
0:18.0 | So in case you've ever wondered what Will and myself thought about |
0:21.9 | liberal personality cults and things like that, well, stay tuned, folks. You're going to find out. |
0:27.8 | Her name, RBG, NG born in BK. Running the Supreme Court. Kilded as is learning right. |
0:34.7 | The Ginsburg personality cult is so interesting because it actually sits at the nexus of several different bad liberal tendencies. |
0:43.6 | We've already sort of talked about the first one, which is this supplanting of politics by personality and by these particular personalities who are treated as being above criticism. I think another one, |
0:55.9 | which of course is especially relevant given the latest developments on the U.S. Supreme Court, |
1:01.0 | is this completely mistaken belief, I think particularly after 2008 among Democrats and among |
1:07.4 | liberals, that demography is destiny and demography basically determines how you're |
1:13.1 | going to vote. So we can safely assume that people from group X or people from group Y are always |
1:18.7 | going to vote for the Democratic Party. And by extension, Democrats are going to control the presidency |
1:23.8 | forever. So you don't actually have to worry about things like Supreme Court appointments. |
1:27.3 | Because don't worry, Donald Trump's never going to be president. Republicans are not going to get |
1:31.1 | these appointments. So Justice Ginsburg absolutely does not have to retire. Stop telling her to retire. |
1:36.6 | So that's bad liberal tendency number two. And then the third one, and I think this is in some ways the |
1:40.8 | most important, is the fetishization of non-political processes, and again, |
1:46.3 | the substituting of politics for these kind of non-political processes by sort of neutral |
1:51.4 | expertise, heavily represented by things like the Supreme Court. So one of the many contradictions |
1:57.6 | in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg mythos that this great essay in current affairs pointed out |
2:02.2 | is that the RBG cult has to at once celebrate her as this kind of liberal firebrand who's always on |
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