Vexatious Voting

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On 2022’s first Remnant, a COVID-addled Jonah is joined by fan-favorite guest Yuval Levin for a discussion of voting rights in America. Voting, Yuval argues, has never been easier, despite claims to the contrary made by progressive and conservative commentators alike. The real problem is that both parties are fueling a loss of public confidence in elections, and trust must be restored for American democracy to continue to function. Jonah also quizzes Yuval on his case for expanding the House of Representatives and what it means to be a “recovering political scientist.” Grab your bingo cards for a thoroughly wonky beginning to the year. Show Notes: - Yuval: “Democrats, Voting Rights Are Not the Problem” - Does high voter turnout help one party? - A war on democracy? - The Policy State, by Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek - Ben Sasse’s Schoolhouse Rock moment - Yuval: “One way to reform the House of Representatives? Expand it.” - Jonah, Yuval, and an expert panel discuss expanding Congress - The Remnant with Michael Strain - The Remnant with Sally Satel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Even better contact with Michael here in your shoes.
0:03.2	Enough fucking power.
0:12.3	Ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
0:28.9	Can we use your listeners, this isji Honagon at Hol Wake
0:31.3	Happy New Year, it is 2022.
0:34.8	This is the first time I am recording a podcast in this August New Year.
0:42.0	It is also the first time since I had COVID and just a word of warning.
0:45.8	I definitely have COVID brain fog.
0:48.8	I have great difficulty adding short columns of single-digit numbers.
0:56.7	I can only recall 19 of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
1:04.4	So it is a little bit of a problem.
1:08.8	But the good news is that I am always in a position of intellectual security with our next
1:15.9	guest.
1:17.2	And since the chasm or the delta between our intellect is so profound that maybe people
1:23.8	won't even notice my diminished capacity.
1:26.4	I am of course talking about my friend, my colleague, my supervisor, Yuval Levin, who runs
1:34.8	the department that I am in at the American Enterprise Institute, author of many excellent
1:39.2	books.
1:40.6	He combines the raw sexual magnetism of an Irving crystal with the down home folksiness
1:51.0	of a crystal or maybe a Robert Nizbit.
1:55.1	So with that, Yuval, welcome back to the Remnant.
1:58.3	Very happy to have you here.
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