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🗓️ 31 May 2022
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ezra Klein, this is the Ezra Conchell. |
| 0:24.9 | One question I've been thinking about during the series on the rising right is whether |
| 0:29.5 | the balance of power in the Republican Party is shifting. For years, social conservatives |
| 0:34.9 | provided the GOP its votes and its shock troops, but the economic conservatives got all |
| 0:40.1 | the policy. Republicans would win by mobilizing evangelicals and then use that power to |
| 0:45.7 | pass corporate tax cuts. But it feels like we may be at an inflection point. |
| 0:51.2 | The multi-decade effort to stack the Supreme Court with hardcore social conservatives |
| 0:55.0 | is paying off. And beyond that, if you look at the new generation of right-wing politicians |
| 1:02.5 | like Josh Hawley and Ron DeSantis and JD Bants, you see that economic policy is really |
| 1:07.7 | up for debate. This is a different party than the Paul Ryan Republican Party. But it's |
| 1:13.2 | social policy where the clear lines are being drawn. There's a very widespread view among |
| 1:18.6 | this cohort and the thinkers are drawing on that Republican politicians of recent years |
| 1:24.4 | put markets first and families and churches and communities last. And the result has been |
| 1:29.8 | social disintegration and cultural chaos. But I think it's fair to say the critique is |
| 1:35.0 | far ahead of the policy agenda right now. I think you saw this a bit in the Patrick |
| 1:38.9 | D'Enie episode from a few weeks back. You get this very stride in populism that sometimes |
| 1:44.5 | seems to resolve down into almost generic center-left policy ideas. Get these slashing social |
| 1:50.0 | critiques that end in a shrug about what is to be done. But that's not going to be good |
| 1:55.1 | enough for long. If Roe is indeed overturned, the Republican Party in general and social |
| 2:00.0 | conservatives in particular are going to be the dogs that caught the car. Most Americans |
| 2:05.0 | don't want abortion ban. And the right will need some answer for them, some way to show |
| 2:09.7 | that they are pro-family, even pro-women, not just anti-abortion. They have an answer |
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