David Frum

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The David Frum Show · How to Argue in the Trump Era Without Losing Your Mind · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, I'll just say personally, since you mentioned it, I don't actually do television all that often.

I used to do it more.

I've really dialed it back.

And among the reasons I've dialed it back, and I upset bookers, a booker will call me and say, will you come on?

And I'll say, I haven't thought about it.

Or I don't have a strong view on that subject.

Or worst

that.

I don't know enough.

I remember Booker once said to me, I said, I don't know enough about the subject.

And she said, if people took that view, television would cease to exist.

But do you feel like you're cast into a role?

Are you able to express what you think?

Or is there something that the drama that you're a part of needs you to do and therefore you are called upon to do it?

Let me ask you about the analytic part of your book and how you engage in, as you call it, storytelling or disputation or whatever you do on television.

I don't know how seriously to take the social science, but there's a lot of social science that purports to claim that Americans are, as individuals and as groups within the national polity, more divided from one another than they were before.

So in a world in which people, it seems, are more hostile to one another, or Americans are more hostile to one another than they were before, how do you do what you do?

And what do you think you're doing?

Okay.

So give us the action plan.

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