From 1918 to 1968
David and Sarah discuss the latest news out of the Supreme Court including the court denying a California church's lockdown challenge, Rep. Justin Amash's plan to introduce legislation to end qualified immunity for police officers, Sen. Tom Cotton's call to invoke the Insurrection Act, the president's call to label ANTIFA a terrorist organization, and a return to their debate over law school.
Show Notes:
-Supreme Court California church ruling
-Nancy's video from the Nashville protest
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I'm a moderate Democrat and started reading National Review about 15 years ago, partly to expose myself to a diversity of opinions and partly just to wind myself up. After Trump was elected it seemed like these conservative intellectual powerhouses were gradually just... giving up on the the values they'd idealized since I'd started reading. Out of all that there emerged these clear voices who were taking a principled stand for integrity and decency when a lot of those around them had given up on this and I found myself with this growing deep respect for people who I'd previously vehemently disagreed with, who I saw doing something courageous at a time when courage to speak about the reality of what was going on was very important. As a centrist moderate, I find myself more and more lonely in terms of the journalism landscape -- The NY Times, which is in fact not "fake news," gives does give a bigger and bigger platform to far left voices who aren't moving America towards a place where we can speak to each other and solve our nation's problems coherently.
Anyway, this is just to say that The Dispatch is doing something special and unique and I think there's a critically important place for it right now. I've been hungry for the voices of even handed people who are intelligent and critical and principles and this is what The Dispatch has consistently been. If you'd told me 10 years ago I'd be a card carrying member of the Jonah Goldberg and David French fan club (and also that Donald Trump would be the actual president), well, I really don't know what I would have said!
A good chuckle when Sarah said "Legal weed moment" at 23:40. Immature, I know...