Rich Lowry

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1,772 appearances 18 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 29 Jul

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Trump's Iran Decision Approaches, Kamala's Strange New Accent, and The Key Vance Factor, with Rich Lowry and Charles C.W. Cooke | Ep. 1300 · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

to that which is expected of the presidency.

Now, sometimes that's actually quite refreshing.

I'm not somebody who always dislikes this in Trump.

I do think sometimes you need a guy who comes to Washington and just sort of says, but that's nonsense.

The way you're doing it is stupid.

and shakes everything up.

And there have been some advantages to having him in our politics as well as downsides, but it's just not going to work here.

You do need to build a coalition.

You do need to set out your aims.

You do need to talk in a way that is appropriate for the presidency.

And I just haven't seen that from the beginning, which is what I always describe as the original sin, as this adventure in Iran, which I'm not intrinsically opposed to.

Well, or do it, but build the case.

We can win this.

This is not like a war game scenario where we're looking at a potential conflict with China and there are some outcomes where you say we would lose.

We can win this.

We are infinitely more powerful than them.

But, and I'm not criticizing this, we're not prepared to do what it would take because the public doesn't want that.

we'd lose a lot of people, but we could win this.

And if we had been invaded here and the reaction of the public was different, we would fight back and we would win and we would lose people and then we would move on.

So it's not that we're in this situation because we're weak.

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