The 2024 Race: "It's Showtime, Folks!" (TEASER)

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Matt and Sam sit down for some rank punditry about the state of the 2024 presidential race. Subscribe on Patreon to hear the rest.

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0:00.0	This is why I think, like, the idea of describing
0:02.5	DeSantis as, like, Trump but competent.
0:05.2	Or as the Timespiece put it,
0:07.0	MAGA without the mess.
0:09.1	My argument is that MAGA is the mess.
0:11.4	Like, you don't get MAGA without the mess.
0:13.6	The mess is what is exciting about it.
0:15.5	You want to be a part of it,
0:16.4	because you're showing up at the fancy party
0:20.2	and, like, taking a shit on the hors d'oeuvres.
0:22.4	Like, that's what's fun about MAGA.
0:25.6	Sam, you made me think of the amazing
0:27.6	Joyce Carol Oates tweet about ISIS,
0:30.0	where she said, all we hear of ISIS
0:31.8	is puritanical and punitive.
0:33.6	Is there nothing celebratory and joyous
0:35.4	or is query naive?
0:38.4	But there is something celebratory and joyous
0:41.8	about MAGA sometimes.
0:43.0	I hated mid-course, right?
0:44.5	But the big rallies, all the in-jokes,
0:47.6	the laughin' of Trump's mockery,
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