Matthew Continetti

The first time, he was, I think, the third English-speaking guest on our show.

So it's historic to have Matthew Continetti back.

Matthew Continetti is a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of The Rites – which was the reason why we spoke with Matt the first time all about his book about the right wing in the US.

And I tried to maybe learn a little bit about through the right wing in America, about the right wing in Israel and what we can learn from it.

So Matt Cantanetti, it's amazing to speak with you again.

It's amazing.

Okay.

Matt, Matthew Continetti, it was amazing talking to you again.

I'm gonna discuss an article during today's show I read this weekend that really disturbed me.

It's by Matthew Continetti in The Wall Street Journal.

And it's-- The gist of the article and the picture I want to paint for you is what the country would look like if we get this election wrong.

Folks, the cascade and parade of horribles coming your way, and I'm, I'm- I've never been, ever been known as the-- We're the receipts show, the Bongino rules show.

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From the White House press secretary's exit after just five days on the job to President Trump's renewed feud with Ukraine's president, we turn tonight to the analysis of Capehart and Continetti.

That's Jonathan Capehart of MS Now and Matthew Continetti, a Wall Street Journal opinion columnist and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

David Brooks is away this evening.

I'm John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, asking you as ever to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel, Commentary Magazine Podcast.

I hope that this satisfies the, uh, demands and requirements of our, uh, dear friend today, Matt, Matt Continetti, who made a habit of pushing the YouTube channel during his daily presence on the podcast.

He's now only here weekly, but I did wanna make sure to pay tribute to his f- uh, stick-to-it-iveness, and, uh, I'm trying to mirror him and follow him as my mentor in this.

So that's the Commentary Magazine Podcast channel at YouTube.

There's a, a great paper by Matt Kroenig, I believe from volume six, uh, that looks at the shortcomings of realism as a tradition, uh, in, in contrast to, um, to conservative internationalism.

And one that I was, uh, re- reacquainting myself with just the other day from Matt Continetti in volume one in 2019 of the RISG papers, uh, that really unpacks I think exactly this question around, uh, conservative internationalism for the 21st century in a way that stays true to President Reagan's prin- principles, but also understands the way in which the world and of, of course the domestic political environment have shifted.

Yeah, Matt Continetti, Matt Kroenig, these are great people, uh, participants in the strategy group over the years, uh, really steeped in, in, in the history and also, uh, the, the policy and politics of today.

You know, one of the things that comes up I would say al- almost every year, every year since we've done the strategy group, um, but it, it was manifested a little bit differently this year, is the, um, sort of alignment between Reaganism and conservative internationalism and Trumpism and MAGA.

And Thomas, we've done polling on this at the Reagan Institute for years now, and we know that the American people, uh, really... and particularly those who identify as MAGA Republicans, very much see an alignment between Reaganism and Trumpism or what it mean- you know, or, or, or to be a MAGA, uh, conservative.

Um, and therefore, I think, um, we're still in a situation in which you can see that this race is up in the air, uh, whereas others may or may not be up in the air.

Maybe, as Matt Continetti said last week, if you go race by race, things are still within the margin of error and all of that.

But in a national atmosphere that seems to be tilting very heavily in one direction with the president as unpopular as he is, with Democratic enthusiasm numbers as high as they are, with Republican lack of enthusiasm numbers as low as they are, right track, wrong track numbers, and other things, um, the, the possibility of seeing a result that isn't simply, doesn't simply feel catastrophic to people on the right Does start to focus on a couple of places like Michigan and maybe Maine if you really care.

The one thing that's interesting about Maine is that not only is Troy Jackson a, a h- uh, an El-Sayed wannabe in his own way, but that, um, Collins represents a breed of Republican who m- maybe there's more life in that breed of Republican yet, and that, and that the, the MAGA movement hasn't completely choked the life out of non-MAGA GOP figures.