Jonah Goldberg
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Jonah Goldberg is a political commentator and author known for his critical analysis of contemporary conservatism. This interview reveals his strategic approach to navigating the complexities of modern politics, advocating for intellectual rigor and principled conservatism in the face of populist challenges.
“Right. And I do think the sort of one of the Signature mistakes of the entire Trump presidency was that the inaugural address, right? If he had come out of the box doing what I feared and thought he would do and what Bannon clearly wanted him to do and give Democrats a trillion dollar stimulus bill, just some massive pork thing, right?”
“Right, and he thinks his base are the best people and they're the real Americans. And that's what I hate about historically populism always uses the language of talking about all the people, just means peopleism from the Latin, right?”
“We should enlarge Congress dramatically. It would fix all the gerrymandering problems and all sorts of other stuff. And so I wrote for commentary, for the public interest, all that kind of stuff during the 90s.”
“I agree. And so this again gets us to this sort of psychological problem where back, remember when Steve Bannon... He was determined to destroy Mitch McConnell, right? Destroy Jeff Flake, Corker, SAS to a lesser extent, right?”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 280 - Jonah Goldberg
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