Our Populist Hissy Fit Needs to Stop | Ruminant

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Dear listener: There are few places Jonah Goldberg hates more than O’Hare International Airport. Yet, in a sad irony, he has spent a significant percentage of his life sitting in a Chicago terminal waiting on a plane. Though Jonah is not generally inclined to process his life through song, today’s Ruminant kicks off with a slow, mournful dirge memorializing his travel nightmares. But fret not; Jonah quickly recovers himself and holds forth admirably on all manner of subjects, including the Vladimir Putin diesel deal, Ukraine and the West, Cornell, Ilhan Omar, politicians and the media, silos, James Talarico, NatCons, J.D. Vance, Katie Zacharia, bad socialist policy, and governing like a grown-up. Show Notes: —Friday’s DisPod —G-File: “High-Minded Words for a Low Form of Politics” —Andy McCarthy in National Review: “What to Make of the Trump DOJ’s Investigation of Ilhan Omar” —Wednesday’s G-File —Jonah’s LA Times column —Jesse Singal in The Dispatch: “Fractured Realities” —Dissent Magazine: “Know Your Enemy: The Post-MAGA Midterms?” —Last week’s Ruminant The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a no