On today’s Ruminant Jonah makes his old man proud by holding forth on the new right’s attempted rehabilitation of Richard Nixon. Along the way, he also hits on dog movies, the problems of polling, the midterms, the red undertow, the death penalty, Sen. Eric Schmitt, and the uncertain future of the GOP.

Show Notes:

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Greetings new listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. We all need to blame Gerard Alexander if today's episode is a disaster, because he's a colleague of mine at AEI. Got to the office extra early this morning so I could get this done and get to work on the G file and get back on the book and do all sorts of other things and make... get home to make the meatballs and do the sauce and pick up the guns from Robert De Niro, but the helicopter keeps following me. And instead, Gerard invited me into his office to pick my brain about some book stuff and, um, not my book, but, like, books he should assign to a class or topics or whatever, and it was an interesting conversation, and it went on too long. And then we turned to, like, uh...

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