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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jonah Goldberg addresses the ‘thoughts and prayers’ backlash following the tragic school shooting in Minneapolis, examines fractures within the Trump coalition, and continues the Dispatch Roundtable’s discussion of how bad Franklin D. Roosevelt was as a president. Show Notes:—In Defense of Thoughts and Prayers—Michael Brendon Doughtery's article for National Review—Friday's Dispatch Roundtable—Daniel McCarthy's response to Jonah 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 access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can you digger?
0:27.7	Greetings, dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Reminent podcast, brought
0:31.1	by the dispatch.
0:32.4	Dispatch media.
0:33.3	I'm recording this early, not in terms of the time of the day, but the actual day.
0:36.7	I'm recording this on Thursday because I got a bunch of stuff to do tomorrow, and I'm recording this early, not in terms of the time of day, but the actual day. I'm recording this on Thursday because I got a bunch of stuff to do tomorrow,
0:40.8	and I got some time to kill before I have to head off to CNN.
0:48.4	I'm not super looking forward to going to CNN, and not just because I don't really love doing TV,
0:53.8	but because I assume I haven't doing TV, but because I assume,
0:56.4	I haven't gotten topics yet, but I assume we're going to talk about the church shooting.
1:00.2	And I, I just hate these stories for all the reasons, for all the reasons. I just, I hate them.
1:08.5	I hate the policy debates after them. I hate the, I hate being
1:14.2	dragooned into them, but most of all, I just hate the horror, the senseless horror of it all.
1:19.8	I did write about it today. Well, I think we're putting it up tomorrow. I didn't want to write a
1:25.1	G-file about it because it's such a depressing topic, and, but just wanted to get something off my chest, and so I'll do that here too.
1:32.2	There is this, it's now almost like a catechism or mantra,
1:38.3	or a Pavlovian response from a whole bunch of people on the progressive left
1:43.0	to say, to heap scorn on people
1:45.9	who offer their thoughts and prayers in the wake of a mass shooting. And I think this is just
1:54.0	a really bad idea. And its premise is kind of offensive to me,
2:01.6	but more importantly, I think it's actually bad for the country.
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