The Dispatch Podcast

Sarah, Steve, and Jonah rank the winners and losers of Wednesday's GOP primary debate and vent about the embarrassing failure of the elite university presidents to denounce calls for genocide against the Jews. Also:

-Kevin McCarthy’s retirement

-The loser caucus

-Trump's plans for a second term

-Contemplating the end of America

-Sarah explains the first rule of apologies

-University presidents smirk at genocide

-The value of challenging views at colleges

Show Notes:

-McCarthy's strange retirement video

-G-File: Antisemitism Is Just a Symptom

-Kash Patel: "We're going to come after you."

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Shadi Hamid is a member of the Washington Post editorial board, co-host of Wisdom of Crowds, and author of The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea. He joins Jamie to debate whether the United States should pressure Israel to push for a ceasefire, if there's hope to rebuild Gaza with Hamas still in power, and what the realistic paths are for a lasting solution between Israelis and Palestinians.

Show Notes:

-Shadi Hamid's profile at the Washington Post

-Shadi's vision for a ceasefire

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Sarah, Steve, and Jonah take a break from the typical roundtable punditry to get a little more big picture. How do we fix Congress? What does the Israel-Hamas hostage swap mean for the future of the war? Should you lie to your kids for the sake of certain holiday traditions? Has feminism cost us Thanksgiving? All that and:

—Congressional term limits

—Expanding the House of Representatives

—Repealing Citizens United

—Easy answers to the Israel-Hamas War

—Biden’s endorsement of a ceasefire

—Elf on the shelf: literally 1984?

Show notes:

-Thursday's Morning Dispatch

-George Will: Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy

-Jonah: George Will Called Me An Idiot

-Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy

-Jay Cost on The Remnant

-Jonathan Martin: To Departing House Members

-Guido Sarducci - Pay For Your Sins

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What would be the foreign policy of a Chris Christie administration? The GOP candidate and former governor joins Jamie to discuss Israel's war with Hamas, Henry Kissinger's influence, the threat of China invading Taiwan, and whether Donald Trump is going to prison.

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Author and journalist Matti Friedman was working for the Associated Press when he noticed a persistent bias in coverage: For the Western media, the story of the region was a simple narrative of good and evil, and Israel was cast as villain. Matti joins Jamie to discuss how this narrative formed and whether there's hope for serious journalism in such a conflict.

Show Notes:

-An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth

-What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel

-You're All Israel Now

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Andrew Egger is joined by Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and co-founder of Echelon Insights. The two discuss the shift in non-white voting habits, how Trump activated the populist coalition on the right, and the role of pro-life politics in that coalition.

Show notes:

-New York Times/Siena Poll

-Patrick Ruffini's profile at Echelon Insights

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The New York Times political correspondent Maggie Haberman tells Jamie that a second Trump will be defined by unfettered score settling.

-Trump's social media strategy

-Bannon friction

-Trump/Carlson 24?

-Trump's totalitarian rhetoric

-The trials are happening

-Mass deportation and other policy agenda

Show Notes:

-New York Times Sienna Poll

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Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto justifying 9/11 went viral on social media and on today’s Dispod, Sarah, Jonah, and Mike discuss how we got here before turning to:

-Xi Jinping’s trip to San Francisco

-China’s social media pysop

-The pandas on loan

-Reports from the IDF hospital siege in Gaza

-Power tools, yay or nay?

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Jonathan Karl saw the chaos, vengeance, and factional warfare bubbling within Donald Trump's political empire and reported it in his new book Tired of Winning, which is out today. Declan, who worked on research for the book, meets up with Jonathan to discuss the internecine drama, Bannon gossip, the dangers of 2024, and the process of reporting on Trump world.

Show Notes:

-Buy Tired of Winning on Amazon

-Karl's Dispod interview on Trump's Final Days

-Karl's Dispod interview on Front Row Seat

-"I Am Your Retribution" speech

-Trump as a wedding crasher

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Jamie is joined by Ben Judah, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Europe Center and the author of This is Europe: The Way We Live Now. The two discuss the future of Saudi Arabia and it's royal family, the crown prince's attempts to modernize the House of Saud, and the future for Jews in Europe.

Show notes:

-Ben Judah's profile at the Atlantic Council

-This is Europe: The Way We Live Now

-Judah: Sauda Arabia's empire of sand

-Roger Cohen: For Europe’s Jews, a World of Fear

-The Atlantic: Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?

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