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Dennis Prager Podcasts

What Dennis Prager & Jonah Goldberg Have In Common

Dennis Prager Podcasts

Salem Podcast Network

News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Author Jonah Goldberg talks about the breadth of conservatism and agreeing to disagree about President Trump.

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There are very, there's very few times in life where you're going to agree entirely with somebody.

0:37.0

The only people we tend to entirely agree with are ourselves.

0:41.0

So I can live with Jonah and I differing on Donald Trump and learning

0:49.9

a tremendous amount from this man. I mean it is is, I don't, and I don't even find that difficult.

0:54.8

You know, one of the points I've been arguing for years is that one of the things that defines

0:58.9

conservatism is a certain level of comfort with contradiction both in terms of the

1:05.8

contradiction between the fallen nature of human nature and that you

1:10.3

you can't make a perfect utopian society and with the idea that people have the right

1:15.8

to be wrong or to disagree. The obvious wide reading that you have done is just remarkable and I and I kept thinking boy I don't

1:28.0

read as fast as Jonah Goldberg does one of the truly if not the greatest thing but one of the great things of this book is

1:36.4

his celebration of what you call and I am I and I you're not the first to call it that but you really have popularized it in this book.

1:46.2

You think America and capitalism are miracles, is that correct?

1:50.3

I call it a miracle because we have no idea really how we were so lucky to get where we are.

1:59.0

You know, there's this amazing consensus among economic historians that for all of our existence on earth

2:06.6

you know and I one of things I do in the book is I take sort of the progressive secular

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