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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Veil of Ruminance

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jonah returns to ruminate on a smorgasbord of things this week: injecting bleach to cure COVID-19 (big if true!), an extended meditation on John Rawls’ "veil of ignorance," how the veil is nonsensical from the pro-life position, and the difference between “social justice” and a “just society.” Show Notes: -Ross’ book on social decadence -Suicide of the West (now out in paperback!) -The veil of ignorance -Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors -A shrubbery!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings dear listeners, this is John Gohlberg, host of the Remnant Podcast brought to

0:29.6

you by the dispatch media, dispatch.com. You've heard all that stuff already. Go check it out for all sorts of exclusive material to sign up for free newsletters, to sign up for full membership, to get basically the quan, do whatever you want.

0:51.6

I'm here. If I sign up for the podcast, it's because I still feel awkward. This is my friend Michael Graham said that the podcast should be called Welcome to the Smoking Car because of last week's episode where I was smoking in a church parking lot.

1:07.6

I'm recording this thing. Now I am recording on a roof on the rooftop of a parking garage near pharmacy where I have to pick up some prescriptions.

1:20.6

And I figured I would just get this done here. I just sent off a draft of the G file, which I had to file late because it's been a crazy day. I recorded an epic length 200th episode of the Remnant with Congressman Mike Gallagher a little while ago.

1:35.6

And I've had all sorts of technical issues. And of course, there were the chuds, but that's another story. So anyway, I'm here. It's late. I'm approaching cocktail hour. The president is about to give another press conference.

1:48.6

My understanding is that this press conference, he will explain that if the which stays at the top of the water, she's guilty. And if she sinks to the bottom, she is innocent.

2:04.6

I know people get sick about it, the Trump stuff, but as I write at the end of the G file today, the floating of injecting disinfectant really was a new high watermark in the tails of Trumpism.

2:20.6

And it was really sort of remarkable. And I think that it's the kind of thing. You know, we hear all the time about how you could shoot people in Fifth Avenue and still think he can't, but it's not as outlandish as we once thought.

2:40.6

But this idea of it wasn't so much that he floated, it was, I mean, it was the fact that he floated the idea of maybe injecting disinfectant or using some kind of, you know, special UV light flashlight inside someone's body.

3:00.6

It was more telling than a lot of things. You know, he often can freelance stuff that he doesn't know about. And it sounds like you could maybe figure out beneath the surface that he's just not articulating it well.

3:16.6

But the really astounding and I think damning thing about this other than the gross irresponsibility of it on the surface is that he seemed legitimately surprised that sunlight and disinfectant worked this way on the virus.

3:37.6

And this is something we always knew. The new information was about the rapidity of the half life essentially. But, you know, in his follow-up sort of attempt to walk back things by saying he was just being sarcastic. You know, he says stuff like, I guess this is why people said to use disinfectant on your hands or to wash your hands.

3:58.6

And then there was another explanation for why you would do that. I mean, I get really frustrated. One of my abiding criticisms of politicians is when they won't do their homework.

4:11.6

The easiest thing in the world, I don't want to say easy, I don't mean easy in the sense that it doesn't take work.

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I mean, easy in the sense that all the things that you have to do are in front of you is your homework. You know, get some researchers to put together some files for you and write some memos for you and you do your homework. You do your due diligence.

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You read up on what you need to know about. The hardest thing in politics is something that you can't buy. It's this charismatic connection with voters or at least some voters.

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And that's something you can't, you know, if Mitt Romney could have bought that, he would have bought it pretty early in his political career.

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You can't buy it. It's something that you have. You can learn to be a better politician or a worse politician. But to have that sort of connection with voters is not a matter of doing your homework or expertise.

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If it were at this point, Ted Cruz would have it, Mitch Daniels would have it. Lots of people would have it. They don't. It is something, you know, there's something special magical, you know, indescribable about it. Sarah Palin had it.

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But she wouldn't do her homework. She wouldn't just simply do her due diligence. And I find that, you know, and lots of people have that problem.

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And I've written columns about this in the past. This is not specifically about Trump. This point I've been writing about this for years.

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