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Embracing Oakeshott

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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Is There a Catch 22?

There's a certain kind of catch 22 phenomenon going on, where if you were part of the right, and you make a judgment about the rights behavior that the crowd doesn't like, then Ipso facto, you are declaring you're no longer part of theright. And therefore your judgment no longer matters. This is one of these problems that really defines the pathologies or the ethos of radicalism wherever it appears. You know, when the French Revolutionaries, they rejected all these notions of like checks and balances and relied on their own independent authority. The Chinese Communist Party recognizes no outside authority whatsoever. If an institution has authority, it has authority because it is an extension of the Chinese

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