The Right's New Victimhood Problem - LIVE with Graham Allen, Jesse Arm, and Joel Berry | Ep. 22
The Jeremy Boreing ShowShow Notes
On Tuesday, Jeremy argued the populist right is selling a poison — that something was promised to you, that something was taken from you, that the only thing left to do is name the enemies who took it and destroy them. Tonight we’re taking that out of the philosophical and into the practical.
We're six months from a midterm in a second-term presidency that the party in power usually loses by default. And the right has a problem that isn't new: we only know how to win by losing. We build careers out of being persecuted. We mistake martyrdom for strategy. We turn our defeats into the most glamorous parts of our politics. But you don't win that way. You only win by winning. And winning is unsexy. It looks like making the bed. It looks like persuading the voter who doesn't already agree with you. It looks like the slow, deeply unglamorous work of saving the country one choice at a time.
I'm joined tonight by three sharp voices in conservative media: Graham Allen, host of Dear America and a former Pentagon digital comms lead; Jesse Arm, VP of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute, who runs their polling shop and has been making the strategic case against the dissident right from inside the coalition; and our very own Joel Berry, senior producer at JBS, who spent seven years at the Babylon Bee and has been one of the most consistent Christian voices pushing back on the Tate / Fuentes wing of the dissident right.
00:00 Graham Allen Went Inside the Administration — Here's What He Found
01:43 How the Right Built a Business Model Around Losing
06:27 Tucker Is Still Running as a Loser — Even After We Won
08:56 The Babylon Bee Got Banned and It Was Great for Business
11:54 Why Democrats Keep Drifting Left of Their Own Voters
22:50 Gen Z Is Running on Vibes, Not Ideology
27:10 You Don't Have to Listen to Candace for Candace to Change Your Mind
33:01 Nick Fuentes Is a Cult Leader — And This Is Exactly How It Works
40:15 We've Arrested the Development of an Entire Generation
47:27 The Post-Religious Right Is Worse Than the Religious Right
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