Conservatism Is Not White | Interview: Richard M. Reinsch II

In need of some good ol’ fashioned conservative inside baseball, Jonah Goldberg turns to the only man he can: Richard Reinsch. Jonah and Richard dive deep into GOP history, examining how the Nixon era serves as a prism through which we can view the MAGA moment, before debunking the recent “white-culture” phenomenon and arguing for a conservatism built on the Declaration of Independence’s immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
Shownotes:
—Reinsch in Commentary: “Against Grievance Politics”
—Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute profile
—Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary
—Ross Douthat’s arguments about the future of conservatism
—Jonah’s G-File response to Douthat
—Jonah’s G-File on white culture and right-wing identitarianism
—Oren Cass in the New York Times
—Kevin Williamson for The Dispatch: “The Not-So-Obvious Price of Trump’s Trade Incoherence”
—Kesler - Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness
—Huntington - Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
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