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#407 - The Cruelty, the Conspiracist, and the Report (w/ Eli Lake)

The Fifth Column

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The Cruelty Is the Point

Right of center or libertarian people who like him are particularly concerned about his foreign policy positions. They're legitimately concerned about the risk of there being some huge expansion of the conflict in Ukraine, something that leads to a nuclear conflict and some wider war. This is a legitimate thing to be concerned about. It's fair to have that be your principal political concern. But it does seem to me that that is your concern. There are plenty of avatars. I mean, plenty of people who could be your champion. And this just seems like the worst possible champion. Most Americans will not like this. They don't want him to be president of the United States because they don't want to listen to

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