Ross Douthat
speaker
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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You know, not that the country is universally pro-polyamory, but you can you can see
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That leftward shift all over.
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It ends up showing up on abortion too, right?
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Trump comes in on the one hand as a kind of someone who speaks to that, who says to embattled social conservatives and religious conservatives, you're losing the culture and you need to live with that and just have me as like the tough guy who will defend you.
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Um but then that the other the other thing that happens is that uh
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liberalism and progressivism having won those victories, then radicalize further and say, well, you know, what happened on same-sex marriage, where we sort of shift the country completely in our direction in an incredible amount of time, and then declare that, you know, the other side are bigots and we don't need to talk to them anymore.
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We can do that with a lot of other issues too.
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And that gets you
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the woke era, and then it gets you the backlash against the woke era, but like the backlash against the woke era is very far removed from a kind of stable social conservatism, like sort of
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building building something.
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I mean, the backlash against the woke era is then, you know, everybody from Catholic traditionalists to pot-smoking libertarians, right, who don't who don't like the woke.
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But it's not a
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I don't know.
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It it it's not sort of a coherent basis for
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governing the country in ways that I think have become totally apparent in the second Trump term.
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the theocracy panic was just that George W.
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Bush won reelection in two thousand and four with the support of lots and lots of white evangelicals.
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Liberals were not expecting Bush to win.
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A bunch of liberals became obsessed with the idea that evangelicalism was taking over America and was going to build a kind of Gilead esque evangelical theocracy.
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I thought that was ludicrous at the time and wrote a bunch of essays about it.
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