The Cult of The College Protest | Roundtable

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Can you compare the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses to January 6? What about 1968? Or 2011? Sarah is joined by Jonah and Steve to debate these questions and discuss Trump’s Time magazine interview. The Agenda: —Nostalgia for the Civil Rights protests —Do we have political parties anymore? —Protests become violent —Whose fault is this? —No Jewish hummus —The UNC frat bros’ Iwo Jima moment —Trump’s Time interview —Ron DeSantis bans lab-grown meat Show Notes: —Kaitlan Collins interviews J.D. Vance on CNN —Serge Schmemann: Student Protest Is an Essential Part of Education —UCLA wins the award —Jonah’s Wednesday G-File —McKay Coppins: You Should Go to a Trump Rally —Ross Douthat: There Will Be No Trump Coup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.7	Welcome to the dispatch podcast I'm Sarah Isger That's Jonah Goldberg and Steve Hayes is here also. We'll see. We've got plenty of stuff to talk about so I want to start with a provocative question.
1:25.7	Jonah is it fair to compare what is happening on college campuses right now and the
1:32.4	pro-Palestinian protesters tactics to January 6th on the right.
1:38.6	Oh yes but with caveats right, like, we should always remember Kevin Williamson's wonderful
1:47.4	line talking about when people would say, well, what about the riots, the George Floyd riots where they burnt down things like big box
1:57.3	doors and Kevin's response was well there's just a difference between a coup d'etat and a coup de target.
2:05.0	And so the intent behind January 6 is special.
2:11.0	The stuff that's going on in college campuses did not deprive the United
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