The Best Worst-Case Scenario

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jonah explores what a Kamala Harris presidency might look like, examines the potential worst-case scenario of either presidential candidate winning, and dives into who The Dispatch’s content is designed to reach.The Agenda: —Best- and worst-case scenarios for the election —What would a Harris presidency look like? —Where Obama went wrong —Irrational voting practices —Does Trump believe in democracy? —Is Trump like Hitler? —The Base —Who is The Dispatch’s audience?Show Notes: —Remaking Conservatism, One Plank at a Time —Liz Cheney column —Dispatch Summit tickets The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you digger? Go Jigga! Geegga!
0:24.0	Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host to the Remnant
0:30.3	podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:33.6	I am talking to you from Dear Valley, Utah.
0:38.3	I am not on vacation.
0:39.6	I am here for an event.
0:42.0	The altitude is frig freaking killing me. I don't know what it is as I get older, but
0:48.1	altitude bothers me more and more and like I woke up in the middle night a couple times wondering if they had like turned off the
0:56.4	feed to my iron lung or something and I'm kind of woozy and weird and I've already had two hours behind the East Coast and I've already had
1:08.0	like three business calls or conference calls or whatever and don't know what I'm going to talk about today.
1:16.7	So I apologize when I'm in this kind of situation, I end up falling back on stuff I've been
1:22.0	writing about lately because at least I've already pre-thought about it.
1:24.7	I don't like to cannibalize the stuff I've written about and I don't like to pre-c cannibalize the stuff I might write about today.
1:30.9	I gotta find a time to write a G file amidst all the other stuff
1:36.4	I got to do, but it is what it is. So I mean, speaking cannibalizingizing I recorded this week a podcast with Seth Masquet
1:47.2	political scientist at the University of Denver although he's right now a visiting
1:51.9	scholar at Vanderbilt.
1:54.0	I thought it was, I really like talking to the guy.
1:57.0	Don't agree with him on everything,
1:59.0	but I think he comes at everything from an interesting sort of very down to earth angle.
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