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Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Battle for the American Right

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

4.67.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We are living through a seismic political realignment. The parties and the political movements that fuel them are being dramatically redefined—and are up for grabs in ways that would have been unthinkable even two decades ago. Today, we are focusing on “the right” side of that divide: what the right has meant historically; what it means today; and what it might look like a decade or a century from now. My guest is Matthew Continetti, author of the new book: “The Right: The Hundred-year War for American Conservatism.” We talk about Donald Trump, of course. But more so we talk about whether or not he was a departure from conservatism or a return to something deeper in American history that the movement’s elites had long kept at the periphery. We talk about the gap between those elites and the base. And we talk about the emerging group known as the “New Right” and whether or not they represent the future of American politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is honestly. I used to have a pretty clear idea of what the word liberal meant.

0:47.0

It meant socially progressive, skeptical of big business and of war, on the side of the little guy. It meant fans of Whole Foods and

0:55.8

Subaru's and cities. I also used to have a good idea of what conservative meant,

1:01.0

skeptical or at least cautious of rapid change, a believer in muscular foreign policy and

1:06.9

free market capitalism, fans of Brooks Brothers and Milton Friedman in the Constitution.

1:13.7

But those labels, liberal and conservative,

1:16.6

but also Republican and Democrat,

1:19.3

are less and less meaningful right now

1:20.9

because they contain less and less actual information.

1:25.1

That's because we're living through a seismic political realignment.

1:28.8

The parties and the political movements that fuel them are being dramatically

1:33.7

redefined.

1:35.2

They're up for grabs now in ways that

1:37.1

would have been unthinkable, even two decades ago.

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