The Idolatry of the Mandate

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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It’s been a great week for The Remnant. Jon Rauch gave us a rundown on the formation of Goldbergism while Sam Harris broke runtime records, so consider today’s Ruminant the cherry on top. Jonah runs through some of his greatest hits, reminding listeners that Trump plays a much bigger part in the proliferation of wokeness than his grifter army cares to admit, negating the idea of stochastic terrorism once again, and bemoaning the culture wars’ capture of the presidency. No Ruminant would be complete without disdain for Woodrow Wilson and instances of volksgemeinschaft, allowing Jonah to blame to current state of American politics on pesky play-pretend revolutionary predecessors. Plus: the case for the return of bourgeois values and the firm re-assertion that there is no such thing as a presidential mandate. Show Notes: —Jonah’s column on presidential mandates —The Economist, “America is becoming less woke” —Fun facts about Dear Leader —Woodrow Wilson, “Leaders of Men” —Dispatch Summit Tickets (Code: SIGNMEUP for discounted prices) The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including Jonah’s G-File newsletter, weekly livestreams, and other members-only content—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Ladies and gentlemen, uh, can I please have your attention.
0:18.0	Can I please have your attention?
0:19.0	Can you digger? Go Jigga! Geegga!
0:24.0	Greetings your listeners, this is Jona Goldberg, host to the Remnant podcast, brought to you
0:30.8	by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
0:32.3	I'm here in Dallas. I got to get to the airport in a little over an hour, gave a talk last night, and I got to get back somehow between now and the taping the Chris Wallace show this afternoon.
0:47.2	I got to write a G file.
0:49.4	It's been really hectic. So I apologize if this is going to be again I don't know but this might be one of those
1:01.5	Solos where I just rehashed some of the things I've been writing and talking about earlier in the week,
1:06.0	because I just haven't had a huge amount of bandwidth to even think about new things.
1:14.0	Well, I'll start with something quasi-new or sort of an update on something I've been talking
1:20.2	about for a long time.
1:21.2	I've been trying to make this point in one way or another for a long time now that this idea that you need Donald Trump to fight wokeness gets all the causality,
1:34.9	I don't say all of it wrong, right?
1:36.8	Because he is anti-woke and fine.
1:39.9	I am too in a very different way.
1:42.7	You know, so I've written about this as like a
1:44.0	thermostatic response, which is this term from political science
1:47.1	that I never, to me a long time for my brain to understand.
1:59.2	It basically means that like when the I mean I understand the concept or the dynamic I just for a long time I struggled to understand why they use the term thermostatic and it's basically
2:08.0	it's like a thermostat where when the public when the politicians give the public what it's long said it wanted, the public
2:18.4	or the majority of public opinion moves the other way.
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