David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Sep

David French’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

Like, well, he already explained that.

Mm-hmm.

I'm thinking, and you bought that?

And you bought that explanation.

You actually did.

I'm going to tell you, if you did, I'm talking to somebody who had incredible ideological blinders on.

Because I guarantee you, you would not have bought that explanation with a Republican.

You wouldn't.

I know you wouldn't.

You would have said, this is the most obvious, clear thing in the history of the world.

And this is just sort of like so obvious and pedantic to say, but it's also very true and very hard.

And that is to apply the exact same standard to somebody on your own side when you find out about a scandal allegation that you apply to somebody on the other side.

And instead, here's what we do.

What we basically do is we say, this person that I like, they're for Medicare for All.

So I know that like, man, they're with me on this and I like them.

And then when you hear the scandal, you go, well, man, an otherwise lovable guy is just, you know, nobody's perfect.

But then you find out somebody on the, you know, you have somebody on the other side and maybe they have a more free market oriented approach to healthcare.

And you're like, you're horrible.

You're a terrible person.

And then you find out that they had a scandal and you go, yup.

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