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:

—Jonah on NPR

—Jonah’s Los Angeles Times column

—NYT: “More Americans Are Identifying as Democrats Ahead of Midterms”

—Stirewalt: “Could Vance’s soccer mom bonus nudge married women back to the GOP?”

—The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition 

—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West

—The Dispatch Editors: “The Coming Post-Trump Reality”

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