Charles C.W. Cooke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
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Then when they decided that COVID was important, it was racist to be skeptical of government actions during COVID because you were hurting the most vulnerable among us.
And as we know from New York Times headlines, if you are
hurting people who are the most vulnerable among us.
They're always disproportionately whatever minorities are in vogue at the moment.
But then when the BLM protests broke out and they wanted people to go into the streets, they said, oh, it's fine.
As you said earlier, Megan, it's fine now to go out
And in fact, it would be racist to stop people from congregating and breathing all over each other and spreading the COVID virus.
So they had three or four different working definitions of racist.
And it just goes to show you how accustomed they were to saying words, science, racist, or what you will, and having people fall into line.
And when they didn't, you get the reaction you saw from Fauci, who's complaining about Republicans being unwilling to do
uh what he wanted it really was the most bizarre time it's it's sometimes because i don't want to remember i forget that all of this happens and then you watch the clips and you're astonished by the crazy couple of years we had and megan you talked about the anger and it's it's because it's so personal for so many people and some of these policies were inhumane my my worst memory of the pandemic
Well, it does sound odd, but I think at root is a difference in philosophy that does stem back to the French Revolution, and Rich is right.
You either...
if you're a revolutionary, believe that everything needs to go or that everything needs to be restored.
Those do seem to be the two models.
And the American Revolution was a little bit...
more complicated than everything needs to be restored.
But it was a grateful revolution in that the founders were very much enamored with what they considered to be their birthright and various people within British history.
And the French revolutionaries weren't.
They hated the king.
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