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Masquerade of Morons (Episode #556)

In Which the 1% Protests the 1%, Mamdani Builds a Grocery Store, California Searches for a Governor, and Iran Has Questions

• Kmele gets glasses
• The return of Soho legs
• Matt’s movie-theater race science
• Trump sends a letter to Congress saying the war is over, Iran says, “wtf?”
• Little Marco, Fog of War correspondent
• A very leaky White House
• Strange new respect for the anti-war MAGA set
• Little Marco puts the best face on Iran
• Welch discovers gas prices
• The affordability caucus makes everything expensive
• Sarah Paulson’s dollar-bill resistance
• Ro Khanna, tax strategist
• Katie Porter, Mrs. Personality
• Gavin Newsom, game changer
• Kamala considers another national emergency
• The Palisades fire motive problem
• Mamdani’s Soviet bodega
• David French enters the reaction-video machine
• Come to DC, please clap
• Trump’s Hall of Shit-Talking
• Totalitarian language for beginners

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David French on the Supreme Court, Race, and the Miracle That Confirmed His Faith #555

New York Times Opinion columnist David French joins us to unpack two fresh Supreme Court decisions, life as a conservative in a Grey Lady world...

…and how raising a black daughter changed the way he sees America.

• David French returns to the Fifth Column
• SCOTUS drops of a few ruling
• Free speech wins 9-0 (First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Davenport)
• The Voting Rights Act gets another trim (Louisiana v. Callais)
• Racial gerrymanders vs. political gerrymanders
• Smart racists, dumb racists, and Louisiana maps
• Kmele has some questions about race-conscious law
• Preclearance, New York City, and old civil-rights math
• David Duke, Tim Scott, and Southern political memory
• Affirmative action, Harvard, and disparate impact
• Is David French still a conservative?
• Classical liberalism and the old conservative bargain
• What changed after adopting his daughter
• Matt’s foundational racism story
• The limits of legal remedies
• Why David endorsed Kamala Harris
• Brown shirts, red shirts, and horseshoe politics
• Political violence and partisan rumor mills
• The SPLC and Christian conservatives
• The Comey indictment (v2) and 86-gate
• ”Black” hair, “black” beauty, and racial identity
• Life inside the Grey Lady
• Evangelicals, Trump, and the prophecy bubble
• David’s faith, doubt, and a story of healing

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I listened to the free version of this episode via podcast recently and was pretty stunned by Kmele's questioning whether we need to have a sober questioning about the US political left's unique proximity to political violence, as well as whether left leaders are contributing to it by being engaged in hyperbole and hysteria about the Trump administration. This seems like more "just asking questions" from Kmele and ignores various recent significant episodes of right wing violence such as January 6th and the United the Right rally.

This bit of conversation seems to be absent from the YouTube version. I don't have access to the full episode, so I am interested to hear whether it was clipped entirely and reaction from others.