The Hangover: An Epilogue with Chris Stirewalt

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Hangover has now concluded, and Chris Stirewalt thought it appropriate to provide an epilogue to the series. If the last four years have taught us anything, Chris observes, it’s that “people are terrible at predicting the future.” After the GOP’s victory in 2016, nobody could have guessed that the party would be swept out of power four years later, or that our lives would be upended by a pandemic. Going forward, there’s no way of knowing whether the GOP will overcome its current craziness or completely self-destruct, but the rot within the party reveals as much about America itself as it does Republican politicians. Making our republic healthier and stronger is a job for all of us, and we can accomplish it by engaging with our institutions and communities. This series has been a pleasure to put together, and we at The Dispatch send our thanks not only to all of Chris’ guests, but to all of you for listening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt and this is The Hangover, limited run podcast from the Dispatch
0:05.2	and Dispatch media that aimed to figure out how Republicans took the shortest trip for
0:09.0	a party in nearly 70 years from total control in Washington to absolute minority.
0:14.6	The GOP didn't seem very interested in understanding why, so we tried to do it for them.
0:19.2	We tried to answer those tough questions and here we're going to try to put a bow on
0:23.1	it.
0:33.1	Well, I hope you guys had as much fun listening to this as we did making it.
0:37.8	It was a treat to have the opportunity to talk to such smart people with insight, patriotic
0:45.3	hearts and good intentions and all of that good stuff and how rare it is we know to be
0:51.9	able to have this kind of fair-minded inquiry and get people of a variety of perspectives
0:57.5	to come in and talk about it.
0:59.2	It's just, it's pretty cool and I hope you thought so too.
1:04.1	I wondered whether or not doing a conclusions episode was a good idea.
1:09.7	Number one, after listening to the run of the show, maybe you didn't want to hear me
1:16.6	talk anymore.
1:17.9	And number two, I really liked where David Glade left us and looking inward rather than
1:24.9	outward and I think that's a thing of real value.
1:28.5	But I didn't want to let the opportunity go by for us to talk a little bit about what's
1:37.1	next part and I think that what's next part is the part that we all wish we knew.
1:44.3	That brings us to point number one in conclusion.
1:48.3	People are terrible at predicting the future.
1:52.5	One thing that human beings are universally bad at is predicting the future.
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