Replacing Great Replacement Theory (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Bob: Tucker Carlson’s replacement rhetoric is intentionally inflammatory ... Is the rhetoric of “transformation” analogous to that of “replacement”? ... Two NYT headlines that trigger Bob ... Is Russia making more progress than it seems in eastern Ukraine? ... Mickey: If Trumpists depose Mitch McConnell, it could forestall a Trump 2024 run ... George W. Bush’s magnificent Ukraine-Iraq gaffe ... Can John Fetterman win in the PA general election? ... Parrot Room preview: Severance, Covid, Elon Musk’s sex scandal, the Depp-Heard trial, Jonathan Chait on charter schools, unemployment fraud, the Dead End podcast, the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, Benjamin Wittes’s infuriatingly Blobby Twitter thread, and what Ramesh Ponnuru misses about replacement rhetoric ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.0	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.8	Hey, Bob.
0:11.0	How you doing?
0:12.1	I'm doing fine. You're at an undisclosed location.
0:14.8	That's right.
0:15.8	And you're not going to get it out of me where I am.
0:18.7	You're at the non-zero-realist headquarters.
0:23.0	You guessed. That's so weird.
0:25.6	It's uncanny.
0:26.7	That's where I am.
0:27.6	Those are non-zero-realist memos behind me on the wall.
0:32.3	Okay.
0:33.2	Well, I don't have a cutesy opening because I'm going to start by admitting that you were
0:37.4	right about something important last time.
0:40.8	I was actually wrong about something, too, but I prefer to, I think you're moving us in the right direction.
0:46.5	You're talking about something in the parrot room that happened in last week's parrot room.
0:49.7	Yeah, in the parrot room last time, we had a big argument over replacement theory, just apropos of nothing.
0:56.5	Like the shooting hadn't happened yet.
0:58.5	Right.
0:59.1	We were just in the abstract talking about whether it was irresponsible of Tucker Carlson to invoke replacement theory.
1:05.9	And you said it was irresponsible, and maybe Ms. Cordy,
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