Venting One’s Spleen

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

At a moment where punditry can feel relatively grim – mostly due to the feeling of instability resulting from this endless election – Jonah wanted to have on someone who was capable of a different variety of punditry. Who fits the bill better for a political commentary of “pluckish optimism” than National Review’s Jim Geraghty, who displayed his infinite humility by choosing not to wear his brand new “Remnant 10-Timer” Championship Belt on the Zoom call? Jim gives his analysis regarding many of the questions that will remain for conservatives after the election is decided: Whither goes the GOP? (A “multi-ethnic, working class, populist party?) What is the correct story to tell about Latino voters and Trump? (And why is the mainstream media adopting the most racist interpretation of this situation rather than the most accurate?) And, most importantly, is Mar-a-Lago Trump’s Elba, or his St. Helena? Show Notes: -National ReviewJim’s page at -Josh Hawley’s retweet of Adrian Vermeule -“Two moon parties” -Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row AmericaChris Arnade’s -William Rusher, who often said that politicians will always disappoint you -Wednesday’s “news”letter -McConnell and Biden are, like, basically friends, guys

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Can I please have your attention
0:19.3	You
0:27.4	Please do listeners is drunk over host of the remnant podcast coming to you from the dispatch and dispatch media if you haven't checked out the
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0:38.8	Dot com site to find out about our what's next event next week. Please do it. We'll press for time and I have
0:46.4	Such a craving for rank punditry that I'm just chomping at the bit
0:52.1	So without further ado. We have my friend former colleague and one of the great
0:57.7	Um, and I mean this in the great the best sense of the word one of the most rank pundits we have around
1:03.9	um
1:06.1	On par with
1:08.2	Chris star of what Chris star wall and Aristotle when it comes to punditry so
1:13.2	Uh, Jim welcome back to the remnant
1:15.7	Jonah, it's always good to be with you, you know virtually or in person
1:20.1	I haven't it's not that I've been awake for 72 hours, but I have not gotten a ton of sleep over the past 72 hours
1:26.9	If you love campaigns and elections this is this is the Christmas time of year
1:30.1	This is this because there's not you you talk about what the voters are gonna do for like two in some cases four years
1:36.2	You know, oh this this is gonna and then you get the results and then you get actual numbers and you get to see
1:41.0	Oh, wait a second the state went this way and this voter there. Yeah
1:44.0	So on the one hand, this is like really energizing on the other hand, you know, it's also exhausting
1:48.1	As as Merlin says in Excalibur a dream to some on nightmare to others
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