Christopher Rufo

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453 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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The Rubin Report · Socialism Likely to Win in the Short Term, But There's a Catch | Christopher Rufo · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

When you saw that Candace Owens was getting 5 million views per YouTube video or whatever, were you strong enough to resist the temptation to lobotomize yourself for clicks?

And if you were, you deserve a special badge of honor.

And you'll be with us as these things burn out and these personalities kind of recede back to the margins.

And the people who

are left standing, I think, will be the strongest people in terms of character and also in terms of integrated intelligence.

And look, I think someone like Candace is actually very intelligent.

She's very charismatic.

She's an immensely compelling broadcaster.

And so it's not that these people are dumb or evil or demonic or

It's like, no, actually they're pretty smart and they're rational creatures responding to incentives and they maybe have the psychological profile where they're predisposed to this kind of thinking.

But there is a limit on that kind of personality.

That personality eventually burns out and the strong personalities that are in high integrity personalities that are going to be successful over the long term are the ones that I think you should be really looking out for and connecting with and cheering on.

You have to gate... So political movements are always a question of addition and subtraction.

So if you want to have the big... We're in a democratic society.

You have to have large-scale political movements.

You're always calculating, is this a net benefit?

Does this help us get closer to our goals?

Is this in line with our principles?

And sometimes there is addition through subtraction, meaning someone might bring...

an audience or an issue or fundraising to your group, but then take away from your reputation.

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