The Sinking Ship | The Roundtable Ep. 78

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this "combative, juvenile, and grotesque" episode of The Roundtable, our editors take great joy in laughing off the Bulwark's newest hit piece on the Claremont Institute. Save yourself from reading all 12,000+ words by listening to an extremely short and accurate synopsis. Then the editors turn to more serious questions, such as: with wokeism creeping over the land—toward your kids and your SMS messages—what can patriots do to win?

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:03.0	Guess who's been betrayed?
0:05.1	The normal Americans who for most of this country's history
0:09.6	have had a pretty solid consensus on some pretty basic things.
0:14.3	Yes, there have been times of conflict.
0:16.2	Yes, there have been times of realignment.
0:18.0	But the threads that shine through are obvious to anyone
0:21.9	who does even the slightest bit of investigation
0:24.0	into American intellectual history.
0:25.7	And it really wasn't until approximately the moment
0:28.5	that Barack Obama splashed the rainbow flag in the White House
0:31.7	that suddenly things started to change.
0:34.1	And what was normal in 1985 and normal in 1995
0:37.9	and normal in 2005 suddenly became, according
0:41.0	to self-appointing experts, insane beyond the pale racist
0:45.4	extremist, it's garbage.
0:47.0	It's a betrayal of normal Americans.
0:49.3	And it needs to be called out as such.
0:51.1	We have more in common than is being represented
0:53.5	to us by fanatics who are trying to demonize our country.
0:59.4	Thank you.
1:16.7	Hello, and welcome to The Round Table.
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