The Future Liberals Want | The Roundtable Ep. 31
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
California is a dumpster fire of government corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude, and social breakdown--and it’s coming for a state near you! This is literally the future liberals want, as they have made plain this week in their spectacularly cringey remote National Convention. Plus: QAnon may be a kooky conspiracy theory, but are its adherents really wrong to fear a nationwide cabal of pedophilia? Our editors discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the roundtable. |
| 0:03.0 | California is going to be like one of those mold spores |
| 0:06.7 | that just bursts at a certain point |
| 0:08.6 | and you go from having like a shower that your family shouldn't use to like a house that is certifiably toxic and must be |
| 0:16.5 | condemned and abandoned. |
| 0:18.4 | And all those spores are just going to spread. |
| 0:21.0 | You know, and this is, this California in this sense is sort of like an equal opportunity disaster area. |
| 0:27.0 | Well, there was there was Michelle, but then there there was also this fantastic musical performance featuring Billy Porter who is the left favorite just person |
| 0:40.9 | to kind of trot out at every major event. |
| 0:43.4 | He is a black person who wears dresses. |
| 0:46.7 | And I say that basically to completely summarize |
| 0:50.9 | as far as I can tell his use and value for as a |
| 0:55.0 | a human being for the Democrats. |
| 0:56.0 | He's nothing beyond this kind of weird like |
| 1:00.0 | intersectional diversity ticket. Such a lovely place, such a lovely place, such a lovely face. |
| 1:15.0 | They're living it up at the hotel, California. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello, |
| 1:28.0 | What a nice surprise. |
| 1:35.3 | Hello again and welcome to the American Mind editors roundtable podcast episode 31 much as I will do very shortly we have entered our 30s here |
| 1:41.6 | on this podcast and I am here with what may be called our our Executive Editor James Poulas, Managing Editor David Barr and myself, the humble assistant editor of both the Claremont Review books and the American Mind. |
| 2:01.5 | We are very glad to be back with you. I am once again hosting in lieu of |
| 2:05.5 | Ryan Williams depressingly for all of you listeners, I am sure, but Ryan will be back just not this week or indeed next week. |
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