The Lobster Effect

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s dyspeptic Ruminant finds Jonah wading through the swampy wreckage of the Republican intellectual movement in an attempt to give new meaning to the phrase “crushing morosity.” From the GOP’s weakness in the face of populism to the loss of objective standards, Jonah tackles all the most important questions facing the right. Why do Fox viewers need safe spaces? What made Trump’s ineffectual trollishness so appealing to so many? And how much screaming of “I told you so” is too much?

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0:00.0	WORST
0:21.0	their
0:22.4	honored
0:23.7	Greasy listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast.
0:30.5	Brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media.
0:34.3	So I am down in Sea Island, Georgia for A.I.s World Forum, which is entirely off the record
0:41.2	so I can't give little updates about what's been going on so far.
0:44.9	Although I will say that I was somewhat overserved last night and probably should not have started
0:51.5	the cigar at 9 something at night.
0:54.1	But I can't say that I just listened to Volo Nirmir Zlinski's speech to us because
1:02.9	the first part of it was actually on the record and being recorded.
1:06.8	So I can say I was there and I listened to it.
1:10.7	But the Q&A stuff was all back off the record.
1:14.4	So I love word form.
1:16.1	I've been coming here every year for about 10 years.
1:18.8	I've been to basically every right wing confab.
1:23.0	I think, well, I shouldn't say that anymore because who knows what Star Wars,
1:26.6	Kintina events, Charlie Kirk or Steve Bannon has put on, you know, that I haven't gone
1:32.5	to nor do I have any desire to go to.
1:35.6	But all those big ones I've been to and I have to say for various and sundry reasons,
1:43.0	I think the World Forum is still the best one of them.
1:46.8	It's not the Davos World Economic Forum.
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