With those on the new right reluctant to say “uncle” after the Republicans’ midterm beatdown, it’s left to Jonah Goldberg to rub some salt in their wounds.
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Tune in as Jonah ruminates over Twitter fights, the SAVE Act, noncitizen voting, Oren Cass, Reaganites, postliberals, reification, liberalism, John Locke, Stephen Miller, Trump’s off-ramps, Kevin Roberts, The Bulwark, replying to critics, Chris Rufo, regime change, and kids’ education.
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[drum solo] [groans]
[drum solo] Ladies and gentlemen, the...
Can I please have your attention?
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Can you dig it?
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This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the "Remnant Podcast," brought to you by The Dispatch and Dispatch Media.
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Um, first of all, thanks to everybody who signed up to become a new subscriber, member, whatever, to The Dispatch.
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Hopefully, some of you have figured out how to now, um, download or access the full solo Remnant, because that's one of the things you get when you become a paid member of The Dispatch.
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So, like, I guess it was just last week, I, I talked about how I felt like I had to address this really stupid Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk thing,
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and I did last week, but I didn't realize that I had, like, literally while I was recording the solo, it blew up even more.
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I ended up getting into this big stupid spat with Chris Rufo, who tried to sort of mau-mau me and emotionally bully me, and...
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Look, I think the murder of Charlie Kirk was heinous and grotesque.
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I've always said that one of the things I didn't fully appreciate was just how unbelievably popular he was.
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I didn't mention Charlie Kirk.
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I mentioned an organization that has become a huge liability, and that's one of the weird ironies of all this, right, is I--
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This tweet of mine where I'd said, you know, "Thank God TPUSA mobilized the youth vote," you know, the day after the election, people projected onto it all sorts of, like, oh, I'm...
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Like, Larry O'Connor, uh, who's a conserv- right-wing talk radio hack who's sort of failed up for a big chunk of his career, I heard from a couple people that on the radio he was saying that, um, I was dancing on Charlie Kirk's grave.
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Which, look, I mean, I'm, I, I'm sorry to get vituperative, but that's BS, and I don't know if he's smart enough to know it's BS or he actually believes it.
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I, I get that there are people on the left who say horrible things about Charlie Kirk, and I thought the Dave Chappelle line about being glad he was murdered is gross.
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So I get that stuff is out there.
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You haven't heard it from me in over a year, 'cause I lament that guy was murdered.
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And I think Charlie Kirk's wife handled herself at that memorial service with unbelievable Christian grace.
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I'm not a huge fan of how they're running the organization now, um, which was my point.
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And, you know, Rufo wanted to make it sound as if, you know, he was acting as if I was saying this, like, during the memorial service or something, and I just think it's intellectually dishonest.
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Well, first of all, let me just say flat out, I was 100% right.
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I apologize for nothing I actually wrote.
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I do regret that some people over-read or allowed themselves to be led by the ear of other people who asserted what my motivations were and what the plain meaning of, of what I said was and turned it into this myth that made them very angry at me.
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But I'm just not a big believer in giving into Twitter mobs, and I have apologized countless times for things I phrased wrong, said wrong.
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I do it when I think I'm wrong, and it, it happens quite a bit.
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And I do think it's part of a larger thing going on on the right, like the absolutely insipid and kind of amusingly pathetic effort to blame the election loss.
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Like, we've kind of moved beyond it was all about Iran.
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I mean, there's certain quarters that won't give up on it, but the new hotness this week was that, that it's John Thune's fault, that but for John Thune being major- Senate majority leader, this election would have gone swimmingly.
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I made, I made this point briefly, and I had quite a tirade yesterday on the Dispatch podcast, which I'm still embarrassed about.
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Kevin won't stop making fun of me for it.
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You know, the-- there's this phrase, the bad boyar thing, which is basically, you know, if only the czar knew, right?
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It's this idea that, that the leader is being misled, mis- mis- misinformed, led astray.
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We've seen an enormous amount of this formulation in the Trump years from Republicans who want to criticize what Trump is doing but don't want to criticize Trump, so they say, "Oh, I think he's getting bad information or bad advice."
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There was a slew of it in the days leading up to the election last week where, you know, people were like, "Whoever advised Trump to go to the Lincoln Memorial the day before the election and talk about caulking and, and the reflecting pool and, and, and, and marble, that guy should be fired."
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