Miles Taylor
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458 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 May
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It was Friedrich Hayek wrote something, a book that that conservatives used to love for a long time called The Road to Serfdom.
And in that book, there is a chapter called Why the Worst Rise to the Top.
And in the 40s, he was trying to explain this exact phenomenon that you just pointed to, because back then, even though there was no cable news or social media, it was still obvious from the papers to so many people that there were just dozens and dozens and dozens of public servants in Nazi Germany and allied countries who spoke this way.
who were clearly educated, clearly knew better, but were just obsequious in their pleasure remarks towards the leader, just how grateful they were, how pleased they were to have this incredible leader.
And his explanation, Friedrich Hayek's explanation on why the worst rise to the top was pretty straightforward.
He said, when you have a leader whose only criteria is loyalty,
then you have to be willing to do literally anything to succeed in that orbit.
So if the leader says, I want you to do something illegal, loyalty means a willingness to do something illegal.
And as a result, the people with no centering values, the people with no morals, the people with no limits on what they're willing to do are the ones who most quickly rise to the top.
Because the moment someone has a moral thought,
or a moment of conscience, they either self-select out of that orbit or they get kicked out of that orbit.
This is exactly what happened in the first term.
I witnessed it.
It was like a PhD in cowardice studies.
I saw people around Donald Trump who, the moment that light bulb went off and their conscience lit up, he could see it.
If he's got a radar for anything, it's for the human conscience.
He would see it, he would get them out of his orbit, and now we are left
with the actual bootlickers, the people who would literally be willing to put their tongues on his Florsheim shoes in order to stay in that orbit.
This is a hard one.
This is a hard one, Jennifer, because it's been so many years of this.
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