Ross Douthat
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4,896 appearances
23 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 27 Aug
Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The party has to deal with the fact that it has a more working class coalition, it has to adapt its policy and rhetoric, all of these kind of things.
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But in fact, that vision was fulfilled in a way that had absolutely nothing to do with us.
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It was not the case that we wrote a bunch of columns, persuaded a bunch of Republicans to become more populist, and lo and behold, you know, a populist version of Marco Rubio was elected president in 2016.
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No, obviously our prophecies were fulfilled by Donald Trump, and the whole Trump phenomenon was just was and
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part remains pretty disconnected from the work of um
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you know, opinion mongers and would be intellectuals.
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So there's that.
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I that's that's sort of one
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one area of
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um success of a kind, but not the success that that I looked for.
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I think that well stop there for a second.
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that that maybe was not in your prescription?
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Well, so one, part of what drove it was just that
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Trump picked or intuited a different set of issues to focus on than
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Rihan and I would have would have favored.
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But but generally we were focused on sort of family policy, wage subsidies, these kind of things, and Trump was just focused on obviously like trade tariffs and reindustrialization.
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in a way that I don't think we we we I don't think we fully anticipated how much some of those arguments would resonate in twenty sixteen.
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I don't know how much they resonate now.
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But in twenty sixteen I think big part of the country was still getting over the shock of the opening to China, and there was just a real percentage for Trump in flying around the Midwest, going to places that had been hammered and saying, I'm just gonna bring back your jobs, right?
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