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The January 6th Republicans
Inside the Capitol building on January 06, 2021 (Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images).
How stories replaced arguments, lies replaced truth, and the right succumbed to a cult of personality.
By Jonah Goldberg
01.06.22 — U.S. Politics
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When I first met Jonah Goldberg, he boasted that he came from “one of the great New York Times-hating families.” They hated it, he told me, but respected it.“My father paid it the high compliment of thinking it deserved his enmity.”

Jonah has been a conservative intellectual for much of his adult life: From 1998 until 2019, he was an editor at the Nation…

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Jonah Goldberg
Editor in chief & co-founder of The Dispatch and Remnant podcast host. A scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, an L.A. Times columnist, CNN commentator, and author of three NYT bestsellers. Goldberg worked at National Review for two decades.
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