I have long held that the Left invented victimhood culture (which replaced dignity culture and before that honor culture), but that Trump was the greatest avatar of it. Every president since Teddy Roosevelt has been a dignity culture president. Trump was the first victimhood culture president. Biden is back to dignity culture, but that ship has sailed (sadly) and it’s part of why he’s ineffective. I’m not sure what replaces victimhood culture, but some combination of the best aspects of honor and dignity would be my choice. Rant over, haha.
By the way, on the bothsidesism, do you read Matt Labash? He just wrote a funny article on precisely that subject:
Had a conversation with my father recently and he’s similarly bullish to you on Youngkin’s win being a sign that the Trump era is over. I think it’s a step in the right direction and I’m tentatively hopeful but I’ll withhold judgement. I still think his cult of personality is strong, even without Twitter.
I’m mainly upset that I never got my absentee ballot! Then again I was going to write in Denver Riggleman anyway so my vote wouldn’t have mattered. But I’m more and more optimistic on Youngkin. Originally I wished he’d been more anti-Trump in the primaries, but he probably wouldn’t have won. I’m glad McAuliffe lost. He was a bad governor the first time around.
Youngkin has my support and goodwill for now. We will see how he actually governs, but I think he stands to do a good job. I’m less optimistic that the Republican Party will cut ties with the orangeman just yet. But this is how it starts! It’s a pipe dream to think that the GOP could be run entirely by Peter Meijer and Liz Cheney in 2 years (they’d have my vote but not a lot of the base). But the off ramp for Trumpism starts with candidates like Youngkin who can thread the needle (especially if he actually governs well).
Just went back and listened to this podcast on stitcher. You well know my position on Trump and what change in the Republican party and politics in general that he has facilitated.
Question, do you write up these notes and training points before you record the podcast? Or do you annotate them from the audio after the recording. I imagine the first path is what you do. If so, I can see how that greatly facilitates the flow of the podcast. I've wondered how much write-up podcasters do prior to recording. Especially when housing solo. Whereas multiple hosts can play off of each other in a discussion.
On your point about Trump and victimhood:
I have long held that the Left invented victimhood culture (which replaced dignity culture and before that honor culture), but that Trump was the greatest avatar of it. Every president since Teddy Roosevelt has been a dignity culture president. Trump was the first victimhood culture president. Biden is back to dignity culture, but that ship has sailed (sadly) and it’s part of why he’s ineffective. I’m not sure what replaces victimhood culture, but some combination of the best aspects of honor and dignity would be my choice. Rant over, haha.
By the way, on the bothsidesism, do you read Matt Labash? He just wrote a funny article on precisely that subject:
https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/the-other-side-of-bothsidesism
Had a conversation with my father recently and he’s similarly bullish to you on Youngkin’s win being a sign that the Trump era is over. I think it’s a step in the right direction and I’m tentatively hopeful but I’ll withhold judgement. I still think his cult of personality is strong, even without Twitter.
I’m mainly upset that I never got my absentee ballot! Then again I was going to write in Denver Riggleman anyway so my vote wouldn’t have mattered. But I’m more and more optimistic on Youngkin. Originally I wished he’d been more anti-Trump in the primaries, but he probably wouldn’t have won. I’m glad McAuliffe lost. He was a bad governor the first time around.
Youngkin has my support and goodwill for now. We will see how he actually governs, but I think he stands to do a good job. I’m less optimistic that the Republican Party will cut ties with the orangeman just yet. But this is how it starts! It’s a pipe dream to think that the GOP could be run entirely by Peter Meijer and Liz Cheney in 2 years (they’d have my vote but not a lot of the base). But the off ramp for Trumpism starts with candidates like Youngkin who can thread the needle (especially if he actually governs well).
Just went back and listened to this podcast on stitcher. You well know my position on Trump and what change in the Republican party and politics in general that he has facilitated.
Question, do you write up these notes and training points before you record the podcast? Or do you annotate them from the audio after the recording. I imagine the first path is what you do. If so, I can see how that greatly facilitates the flow of the podcast. I've wondered how much write-up podcasters do prior to recording. Especially when housing solo. Whereas multiple hosts can play off of each other in a discussion.
Again, I agree with nearly all your points here.
Have you thought about being an intern for Mike Lee?
I love it, but you need a good proofreader to go over the article before you post it.