The Delusional GOP of Yesteryear
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week, The American Mind team is off, with the exception of Seth Barron who has volunteered to bring you a short and sweet one-man show before we return to a full complement next week. Against the background of Liz Cheney's crushing defeat in the Wyoming primary, Seth analyzes the ever-widening rift between the New Right that is taking over the GOP and the old guard who are now finding themselves not only on the outs, but unelectable. Obviously the only answer in that position is to assume everyone else is wrong and run for president, right? Right?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the round table, the official podcast of the American Mind. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Seth Barron, managing editor of the American Mind. Today, I'm joined by no one. It's a lonely round table. |
| 0:38.1 | I feel like Lancelot or Gala had or somebody, everybody's gone. So I'm just maining the round table by myself. |
| 0:45.6 | So I'll be saliloquizing a little bit today. It's not going to be a full hour, but I will try to |
| 0:52.4 | give you some food for thought and see if we can make it work. Just me. The big news to my mind. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, obviously, there's been plenty of things going on. We still haven't talked about the raid on Mar-a-Locco. |
| 1:08.6 | That's clearly major news. I think that's developing, though, so we can talk about that maybe next week |
| 1:16.4 | when the fellas are back. I would like to talk about Liz Cheney's defeat, which to me seems very |
| 1:25.3 | significant, and well, I wrote a piece about it. This was probably, I wrote this for Unheard, the |
| 1:33.0 | British website, the night she lost it, and just the other night. So I'm going to read this, |
| 1:41.1 | but it's lively, and I think you'll enjoy it, and then I'll talk about my own piece. |
| 1:48.7 | So here we go. They titled it, this is from Unheard.com, which is a great website, |
| 1:53.8 | un-h-e-r-d.com. Liz Cheney's neoconservativism is dead. |
| 2:01.5 | Liz Cheney's thumping defeat in her bid for renomination for Wyoming's sole seat in the House of |
| 2:07.6 | Representatives. Signals again, the utter and total defeat of the Bush-Cheney Romney era of |
| 2:15.1 | the Republican Party. The neoconservative period of GOP dominance ended when Donald Trump |
| 2:23.2 | trounced the field during the 2016 primary season, but the avatars of that political tendency |
| 2:32.0 | in favor of military adventurism and free markets, and opposed to capital gains taxes, |
| 2:40.5 | and what Liz Cheney's father once called the death penalty, referring to estate taxes, |
| 2:48.1 | keep appearing like ghosts at the feast to rattle their chains and insist on being seated above the |
| 2:53.8 | salt. Reliably trumpy until the January 6th riot of the Capitol, representative Cheney about |
| 3:01.6 | faced to embrace every jot of the Democrats' narrative regarding Trump's alleged attempt |
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