For this week’s Honestly, we’re sharing a favorite episode from a favorite podcast, one you may not have heard of: UnHerd with Freddie Sayers.
UnHerd’s mission is similar to ours: to push back against the herd mentality, and to provide a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people, and places.
On this episode, host Freddie Sayers talks to Andrew Sullivan, one of America's best known political observers and writers, about something very few public intellectuals are willing to talk about: what he got wrong about Trump.
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Andrew Sullivan’s argument is: “He said he was going to be a tyrant in 2016, but then when he had the opportunity, he didn’t do it. But this time he definitely will!” Got it.
I listened to Andrew list of all the awful things about Trump that he was so sure would happen but didn’t during his presidency and kudos for that. Then he listed off all the things he was sure would happen during a second Trump presidency without any awareness that if he was so wrong the first time about so many things, odds are he’s wrong this time too. All the people like Andrew who were also sure how a Biden presidency would go have been spectacularly wrong about that too. Maybe have some self reflection about why no one takes your warnings seriously. The boy who cried wolf and all that.