Normally you’d have a new conversation with John McWhorter and me today. But it’s summer vacation time, and I was with my family down on North Carolina’s Outer Banks at the time John and I normally record. There’s work and there’s life, and I didn’t want to interrupt my precious time with my wife, children, and grandchildren. John and I will be back with a brand new conversation for you next week.
This week, my team put together a show gathering clips spanning the last year in which I discuss the election with my guests. Surveying these conversations with John, Carol Swain, Sabrina Salvati, Joshua Cohen, and the lovely LaJuan Loury, I’m struck by how prescient some of them now feel. For example, back in February, Biden dropping out of the race seemed like a good idea to me, even if it was unlikely to happen. Turns out all it took was one catastrophic debate performance to topple a sitting president. In these clips, my guests and I cover the case against the Democrats writ large, Trump’s rising popularity among black male voters, Biden’s weaknesses as a candidate, that notorious debate, and the “DEI candidate” label as applied to both Kamala Harris and JD Vance.
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1:32 Glenn's intro
3:10 Glenn's case against the Democrats
14:06 Why is Cornel West running for president?
18:58 A black, conservative defense of Trumpism
25:29 A leftist analysis of Trump's rising popularity among black men
30:45 Glenn's early call for Biden to step down
36:25 Trump's debate style
41:36 Glenn: Biden is a “singularly uninspiring” political figure
49:11 The presidential debate post-mortem
55:45 The “DEI” candidates
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