David French
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3,176 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 22 Aug
David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, uh so to before we can talk about the factions, we kind of gotta set the stage about sort of what is the Republican Party now.
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And a lot of people, so for example, in the JD Vance faction, want to say that the Republican Party has just changed fundamentally, ideologically, almost down to its DNA level, to a sort of much more authoritarian statist project that J.D.
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Vance represents.
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And then a lot of other people, such as say a Brian Kemp out of Georgia, would say no, the GOP is still a party and has millions and millions and millions of voters who are still sort of old school normie Republicans.
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They are more interested in limited government.
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They're more interested in the classic three legs of the Reagan stool limited government, strong national defense with international alliances, social conservatism, and that the status authority.
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Authoritarianism of J.D.
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Vance, that's not who we really are.
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And the problem is what Trump did is not really replace one GOP ideology with another.
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It's like he took the GOP ideology that existed around 2015, nuked it from orbit, and sort of then turned the glowing ruins into nothing but his impulses and desires.
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So conservatism over time became
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Well, whatever Donald Trump wants to do.
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So, what that's done is it's left kind of punted the argument of the idea or over the identity of the GOP until that time in which Donald Trump's desires will not be front and center.
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And J.D.
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Vance really is the only one stepping forward with a truly coherent ideological project.
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And if you've been tracking him over the
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Years, he very much has a friend-enemy distinction about how politics are done.
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My friends are to be rewarded, my enemies are to be punished.
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And it's very statist, it's very authoritarian, and it's very much rejects traditional sort of GOP push towards more economic freedom.
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And what he essentially says is economic freedom is personified by like a Milton Friedman, and I wrote about this for
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