David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 4d ago

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The Opinions · The Right Is Rethinking MAGA. The Left Is Rethinking ‘Woke.’ · 22 Aug 2026 podcast

It's like watching WrestleMania sometimes. matched

It's just absurd. matched

But I will say, and uh at state after state across the country, there are still serious people doing serious things. matched

And I look forward to the day, hopefully, when those serious people who are doing who have been doing serious things actually become part of the national conversation. matched

I think, you know, look, uh I d I date woke one much earlier. matched

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If you look at what was happening on campus, there was actually a pretty clear, sharp break by around 2014-2015 when the nature of censorship on campus, which is something that I'd been working on for a very long time, switched from predominantly top-down, where it might be a dean of students or a uh or an administration silencing people. matched

By around 2014, 2015, we matched

began to see a huge wave of essentially what you might call grassroots censorship on campus, where there were attempts to hound people out of their jobs, to get people fired. matched

And one thing that I want to really emphasize about this, look, we don't have to go to something like the Cultural Revolution, where lots and lots and lots of people died. matched

To talk about how horrific it was to be in the epicenter of some of these firestorms, where everything was taken as the w in the worst possible faith. matched

And then it began to radiate and move from there into a position where lots of just regular folks felt like I may lose my public reputation, I may uh I may lose my job, I might be subject to public. matched

Shame campaigns. matched

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I'm just not going along with some things that were actually w part of roke woke was both a lot of intolerance and and vicious intolerance. matched

Tied to a lot of weirdness and strangeness, like weird language changes, uh, very trendy things like putting your Instagram square all black, you know, weird things like this that you know that didn't do much of anything in the real real world, but were supposedly quite symbolic of your in-group inclusion. matched

And I think the idea that this didn't kind of permeate America over time. matched

Cause I think that I I hear what Jamel says about 2020. matched

I do hear that. matched

I also think the outcome in 2020 may have been different. matched

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