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On the morning after, Coyle and Ed offer their immediate thoughts on the stunning election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States.
Readings Mentioned in the Episode:
- Nate Silver’s site
- New Yorker’s Endorsement of Clinton
- Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
- White Trash, Nancy Isenberg
- Listen, Liberal, Thomas Frank
- “How the Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul“, The Atlantic
- Hollowing Out the Middle, Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas
- The Cracked.com article
- The American Conservative Article
- “The Election is Over, Let’s Get Political“, Jonathan Leeman
Good job of having a civil discussion without freaking out, guys. Clearly this was recorded before all the protests/riots started. What I find particularly dismaying are the reports from various campuses of “traumatized” leftists handling the election as if it were a real mental health crisis.
I agree, I’d like to hear you do an Obamacare episode and a climate change episode. I didn’t vote for either of the major candidates, so I may have to go back and listen to your “How Can a Christian Vote for..” episodes for y’all’s take on Evangelical support for Trump as opposed to Clinton.
charleshackney Thanks! (Though I doubt you’d be surprised by our conclusions on the “How Can a Christian Vote for…” episodes, I think they’re still worth listening to!) I’m sure we’ll get to Obamacare and climate change at some point, though both will be a fairly steep learning curve for me…
Agreed. Thanks for civil discussions. Also agree that Obamacare and climate change episodes would be nice.
I’ve only listened to a third of your episodes so I’m not sure if you’ve ever discussed Wendell Berry’s writings. I find him fascinating because it seems both ends of the political spectrum put him in the other end. But that’s just me, I’m not too familiar with political theory.
djlnhaus I think he may have come up once or twice. I have enjoyed Wendell Berry, and we might do a Berry episode at some point (or more generally an agrarianism one), but I also feel like he’s kind of a one-note guy. Once you get his core argument down, his work gets a bit repetitive…