Survey the Wreckage | Ruminant

After a couple minor appearances on CNN and about 1,823 tweets, Jonah Goldberg has returned from his Lone Star sojourn ready to ruminate on the week’s GOP bloodbath. Tune in for an absolute stemwinder on the youth vote, TPUSA, Texas, Kansas, the fallacy of red and blue America, potential Democratic overreach, Steven Miller, the DSA, class rhetoric, J.D. Vance, opinions of the median voter, explanations vs. excuses, and a vindication 11 years in the making. Show Notes: The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Want to see more of The Dispatch in Google search? Add Us as a Preferred Source Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things. The podcast transcription below was generated using artificial intelligence and may include occasional errors or misspellings. Music 0:01 [drum solo] [groans] [drum solo] Music 0:14 Ladies and gentlemen, the... Music 0:16 Can I please have your attention? Can you dig it?. [crowd cheering] [drum solo] Jonah Goldberg 0:27 Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of The Remnant Podcast, brought to you by The Dispatch and Dispatch Media. Ah, well, I actually thought that this was an important enough week that I was-- I wanted to do a whole, like, prepared, not, not a script, but like, you know, bullet point outline of what I was gonna talk about. And I sat down to do it, and I just started to lose my mind, and so I'm gonna go full Bill O'Reilly, go back to my, my roots here. We'll do it live. We'll do it live. Crazy week. Monday, I took a train up to New York. I did, uh, the 7 o'clock hour, the Erin, Erin Burnett show, and then me and Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who they've-- CNN decided to pair up me with Lulu. I like Lulu a lot. Obviously disagree with her on a bunch of things, but she's a good egg. We, uh, Jonah Goldberg 1:21 had to go fly out to Austin, Texas, 'cause we were gonna be at the... I have to say, just as a-- I, I kept complaining about it on election night. They kept saying it was Talarico headquarters. It wasn't Talarico headquarters. It was the location for the Talarico victory party, which is a different thing. But I don't think I'm shocking any of my longtime readers or listeners when I say I am not famous for my granular, deep knowledge of Texas politics. So it was a little weird to be-- Interactive transcripts are available to Premium members. Join to follow along with the audio. Join Now More We Think You’d Like