Telephone Killed the Convention | Interview: Chris Stirewalt

Today a *very sober* Jonah Goldberg is joined by the *mostly sober* friend of the pod, pickled alligator aficionado, and notorious West Virginian Chris Stirewalt to talk about the midterms, the Alaska primary, GOP expectations, J.D. Vance’s presidential campaign, right-wing social engineering, the Trump midterm convention, postliberal eggheads, post-Americanism, free money, America’s dirtbag political ethos, and … America the Sandwich. 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. 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 0:00 [intro music] Ladies and gentlemen. Music 0:16 Can I please have your attention? Can you dig it? [crowd cheering] Jonah Goldberg 0:27 Greetings there, listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. Very excited. Labor Day weekend's over. We can sense the end Jonah Goldberg 0:38 of the Barton Fink season here in DC with the end of summer. It's coming. Uh, like in the mornings, it's almost, almost necessary to wear a jacket, but not quite, but you can imagine wearing a jacket. And we decided traditionally the Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of the actual fall campaign. Some of this is a bit of a cliche and, you know, nostalgia as we're talking, but we-- we're gonna honor it, and so we figured we would need to do some serious punditry, particularly given the really shocking results in Saxony-Anhalt for the AFD in Germany- Chris Stirewalt 1:14 [laughs] Interactive transcripts are available to Premium members. Join to follow along with the audio. Join Now More We Think You’d Like