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John Ganz

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The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

Vance is deeply wounded by the kind of

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

entry into America's elite that he had, which is that he's a bright guy.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

He went to Yale, but he comes from this underprivileged background.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

And I think he, like Richard Nixon before him, who was a bright guy, but really resented elites and their condescension towards him.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

I think that he really has a chip on his shoulder about that.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

I thought you said Bob Costas for a second.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

One knock you could make on Girard in general and his approach to religion and a lot of conservatives' approach to religion, quite frankly, is that no doubt many of them are sincere, of course, but they usually relate to religion as some kind of social or psychological necessity.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

And that's not quite the same as believing, right?

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

If you say, well, it's better for society if we do that, that's not quite saying I believe anything.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

in the literal truth that, you know, of this religion and that, you know, God is communicating through its representatives, it's something much more utilitarian.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

So I think that Girard's philosophy is an entry point for people who's

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

viewpoint on the world is fundamentally not one of faith it's one of reason and this seems to be a rational picture of the world and how it works and why people are competitive what gerard is right about is that being involved in these social competitions and desiring what others want and being in these mimetic basically love triangles is extremely painful and it's very difficult to feel like you've accomplished you know very much because there's always this

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

endless regress of, Oh, this person has something I want.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

So the appeal of religion then is it seems that Gerard said, well, you know, instead of imitating others, imitate Christ.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

And, you know, he was the only person not infected by this.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

And yeah, I can understand, you know, the pains of living in a competitive society.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

One would want to escape that and take a more contemplative stance towards it.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

It seems to me that,

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

that these fellows have a very utilitarian, almost cynical relationship to religion that is not one of deep feeling.

The Bulwark Podcast
John Ganz: Trump’s Coalition of the Aggrieved

I don't know.