Hello, Patriots, and welcome back to Across the Pond for the Sunday edition, where I, Connonsomerson and my co-host Tate Brown, are joined by a guest. This week, we thought we would treat you to a perspective from over the opposite side of the Atlantic to me and bring in our friend Oron McIntyre. We did promise to be a Zuma show, but Oron is the sort of podcast as podcaster for the online rights are always privileged to have his takes. Oron, how are you doing so? I appreciate you making an exception, bringing Unk in, you know, really. I can talk to the kids and, you know, tell them what it was like when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. I really appreciate you guys reaching out to the older generation yeah we were we wanted to get like preparation for dealing with our disagreeable family members

right around the christmas dinner table so you're like our training exercise yeah tate how are you

doing i'm doing good brother how are you doing uh yeah we're all hunkering down and and weathering

our respective political storms, but I'll get

on to the UK stuff in a moment. Orant, you had an excellent tweet out earlier, which is why we've

brought you on, about how the GOP can never hope to win if it continues ceding ground to its

enemies. Do you mind elaborating on that theory?

Sure, just a lot of people looking at what's going on with the right right now. We have Republicans refusing to pull the

trigger on redistricting. They're not passing Trump's nominees into the cabinet and to the

wider executive branch. Just very easy stuff, very obvious stuff, easy wins that they should be picking up,

and yet they completely refuse to do so.

And the thing we hear over and over again is it's about principle.

It's the principles that they really are upholding that are keeping them from taking these victory laps.

And at some point, we have to just admit that either the GOP is just controlled opposition,

it's simply not a real party and we have a uniparty in the United States,

or if we really do think the GOP is at some level opposition,

then we have to ask, why is it so committed to principles that routinely

produce complete losses, complete failures, and seem to have no connection to actual moral

understandings? What is it about the GOP and it's kind of the way it processes information that it

ultimately continually comes back to these conclusions.

And if we are going to continue to pretend that these principles that make it impossible to win in every scenario are actually features of conservatism, then we need to ask harder questions, right?

Are these principles that conservatives actually developed? Is this really what we believe in?

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