Suicide of the West How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

We just had this week a professor from Columbia who wrote a book called Tribal, which is really, really good.

Suicides are choice. You choose to do to make these decisions that you're making and I think that one of the things that people don't appreciate is that if you you can choose not to do them as well and that a lot of the things that are plaguing this country are within our own power to fix.

There's nothing wrong with a little populism, right? There's nothing wrong with little nationalism. It's like a pinch of salt brings out the flavor in the meal. Too much ruins the meal and way too much is literally poisonous, right?

It's not good enough that dogs succeed. Cats must also fail, right? And that's sort of where we are as a culture right now where it's not you know and this drives me crazy about my own side these days where I talked to young conservative activist college students and I say look by all means fight political correctness if that's what you want to do.

It's much a cautionary tale to my allies on the right is that a lot of people are just giving up on persuasion and instead it's just hammering tongs cats must fail it's all about power the arguments and defense of Donald Trump in the in 2016 were all about winning and strength winning and strength are not they're absolutely amoral concepts winning for what strength for what unity for what right it has to be the ideas that underlie it and we're in a moment where a lot of people just don't care about ideas anymore

Suicides are choices. You choose to do to make these decisions that you're making and I think that one of the things that people don't appreciate is that if you you can choose not to do them as well and that a lot of the things that are plaguing this country are within our own power to fix.

It's not good enough that dogs succeed. Cats must also fail

winning and strength are not they're absolutely amoral concepts winning for what strength for what unity for what right it has to be the ideas that underlie it and we're in a moment where a lot of people just don't care about ideas anymore

the pursuit of happiness is is it's not a guarantee right you have the right to pursue it and one of the great things about freedom the miracle liberal democratic capitalism whatever you want to call it is it gives more people the opportunity to pursue it

don't throw the baby out with the bothel

You know, I wrote a book called Suicide of the West where I talked about many of the problems that the United States has.

the best books on the topic don't make it either or they combine both like the book Identity Politics, which talks about racialized economics.

He wanted to turn every school in the city of Portland into a charter school of choice.