Ezra Klein

a woman who is given for the nurturing of life and turn her into a death agent.

I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.

It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated.

There's also, I mean, obviously, the Dobbs decision a couple of years back, which is, I think, significant, worth thinking about here.

Some of these things feel like they're just not on the table, right?

Like repealing the 19th Amendment.

Doug Wilson can talk about that all he wants, but it's, I think, not going to be a demand of the Republican Party anytime soon.

On the other hand, things make their way in in weird ways.

One question I've really had is, does this become a real agenda?

Particularly after Trump, because Trump has this quality of... One way he's able to hold this very strange coalition together is he gives everybody a little bit, and then he'll also happily represent the opposite.

And he has such individual power over the Republican Party that what he says goes.

The people behind him, you know, the J.D.

Vances and Pete Hegsess and R.K.

Juniors, nobody has that kind of power.

And so they actually, they both are often more true believers than he is.

I mean, I don't think Donald Trump is reading Bronze Age Pervert or any of this stuff.

And on the other hand, they have to promise more and they will have to promise more to try to pull these influencers and institutions and churches and so on into their orbit.

If this was to start getting traction as actual ideas, what would that look like?

And I guess it will also be through culture and through, you know, how we treat each other and what is proposed.

I don't know if you read this piece in New York Magazine by Sam Adler-Bell,