David French

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

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

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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. matched

They are more interested in limited government. matched

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. matched

Authoritarianism of J.D. matched

Vance, that's not who we really are. matched

And the problem is what Trump did is not really replace one GOP ideology with another. matched

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. matched

So conservatism over time became matched

Well, whatever Donald Trump wants to do. matched

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. matched

And J.D. matched

Vance really is the only one stepping forward with a truly coherent ideological project. matched

And if you've been tracking him over the matched

Years, he very much has a friend-enemy distinction about how politics are done. matched

My friends are to be rewarded, my enemies are to be punished. matched

And it's very statist, it's very authoritarian, and it's very much rejects traditional sort of GOP push towards more economic freedom. matched

And what he essentially says is economic freedom is personified by like a Milton Friedman, and I wrote about this for matched

my newsletter, that is for a more Christian country. matched

That is for a country where the citizens are sort of more Christian, more self-disciplined, like they were in Don't Laugh Guys, the 1980s. matched

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