Helen Lewis

We should do that with women.

And, you know, it's just now no one can say anything against that because that would mean you were kind of a cuck.

Like you were just a kind of panty-wasting HR department.

And it didn't matter for Nick Fuentes on sexism.

It matters for him over anti-Semitism because there were enough powerful people in that coalition who just went, this is our line.

And that was fascinating to me was that you've made your whole politics about having no line.

So how the hell is anybody supposed to now ever go back and enforce anything?

And you're right.

I think there is, you know, I think about the culture war ads.

You know, you mentioned there the sex change stuff.

I think, you know, cameras for they, them, which is an incredibly influential ad.

I think that worked because it tapped into a sense that Democrats are focused on irrelevant issues for tiny minority groups.

However, I think that the Republicans should be very mindful of the other side of that, which is Donald Trump in the middle of a huge inflation shock, oncoming gas price rising, going, I actually don't care about any of that.

You know, if you try in that context to rerun your cultural playbook, people are going to say, why are you talking about the Jews?

Could we hear a bit more about gas prices, please, and a little bit less about this kind of stuff?

Well, I was trying to think about what novel would be kind of interesting and resonant with this discussion.

So I have Christy Mallory's Own Double Entry by B.S.

Johnson, an English writer of the 20th century.

It is about a young alienated guy who discovers double entry bookkeeping.

You know, the idea that for every debit, there's a credit.