Ross Douthat

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4,896 appearances 23 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 27 Aug

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Interesting Times · Ross Douthat and Ezra Klein on the Art of Persuasion · 27 Aug 2026 podcast

And that was again a different message from saying we need to use government policy to help people form families. voice-verified

And I'm genuinely angry at the people who took it And I'm right. voice-verified

Well that too, right. voice-verified

So then there's there's a more substantial anger, there's more substantial scapegoating. voice-verified

They're moving to other voice-verified

So our our view wasn't that you should never cut Medicare and Social Security. voice-verified

It was more that if you're going to cut Medicare or reform Medicare, you should be doing it not to just pass a new upper bracket tax cut, but to free up more money to help working families, right, would be would be how the argument would go. voice-verified

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Trump just said, no, we're, you know, we're never cutting these things, right? voice-verified

And so he outflanked all of his Republican primary opponents by realizing that a big part of the Republican base wasn't on board with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. voice-verified

But what that did was basically create a kind of a voice-verified

m more popular, but much more fiscally unsustainable and in the end, I think, sort of unproductive policy mix on the right, where the right sort of defines itself as defenders of old people's entitlements rather than people who are eager to cut it, and then has no space left for voice-verified

for a lot of the policy ideas that that we would have favored. voice-verified

So that's part of part of what happened. voice-verified

The other thing that happens, right, is that we were trying to sort of craft voice-verified

I you know, I think you use the word traditional, I would have said sort of like a kind of moderate social conservatism that um was compatible with the Republican Party's sort of religious base and pro-life commitments and so on, but tried to start from there and broaden into broader support for two-parent families and marriage and these kind of things. voice-verified

What actually happened. voice-verified

for about 10 years, social conservatism was just routed in the U.S. voice-verified

It lost I mean it lost the argument over same-sex marriage most prominently, but it lost a lot of different arguments. voice-verified

Like if you just look at the trends in the 2010s on, you know, all kinds of questions from, you know, drug use all the way to like polyamory. voice-verified

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