After watching your interviews I always feel that I have learned something. On the subject of being a better informed voter the thing that I find most frustrating is the way that Politicians refuse to answer the difficult questions asked by the media. Rather they pivot their response and reply with meaningless platitudes on subjects that may or may not be related to the specific question asked. This is done by all Canadian Politicians regardless of Party - so I don’t blame them. What I don’t understand is why the press is not more insistent on having them answer the specific question directly. Doing this would help us voters decide. I would be interested in David’s views on the subject of media coverage of the political process.
Increasingly of the opinion that Trump should be prosecuted for all his crimes large or small. The message has to be sent that eventually anyone committing such crimes will be held accountable. This is an important principle to reaffirm in a major democracy but more important it sends a clear message to others who might try the same playbook that at the very least they will be mired in legal jeopardy for years to come. Also the enablers who surrounded him should him should face jail time.
Ofcourse there is anger, there’s no healthcare, there’s no reins on corporate greed, ppl die from preventable illness, and cruelty and selfishness are perpetuated.
Here is something larger to imagine: 1. DOES DAVID THINK CANADIANS ARE FREE OR NOT? 2. WHAT DOES DAVID THINK ABOUT THE CANADIAN POLITICAL PERSON & THE FUTURE OF CANADA? 3. WHY DOES CANADA CHOOSE TO CALL JULY 1ST AS CANADA DAY AS OPPOSED TO INDEPENDENCE DAY? 4. "ARE THESE ROBSTERS CANADIAN...." HOW TRUE IS THIS BACKDROP IN CANADIAN POLITICAL FREEDOM?
I'm revolted by Pompeo, DeSantis, and Haley. They believe what Trump believes. So what's the difference? The problem is that even responsible conservatism is a losing proposition for our future. I think the progressive effort to level the economic playing field and eliminate the huge discrepancy in income and wealth is essential if our democracy is going to survive.
The Manhattan indictment will look like a curious sideshow when the more serious deluge of charges comes raining down in Georgia and from the DOJ within the next few weeks. In the meantime, the Manhattan DOJ is doing his damn job, which is something I was not expecting. Some, like Frum, may think the indictment is a nothing burger, but sometimes you need an appetizer, even if it's somewhat underwhelming, while you're waiting for that spectacular main course.
It's funny that you dorks think that these charges are legit while everyone who reads them can tell that it's a political hit job. You cultists have no idea how bad you've already lost.
When you see Garland behind and not moving I don't know what else could be done. Garland has been a massive disappointment. Why, why did Garland not move on this in February 2021? All of it.
@@renzo6490 Home owners association. They tell you how to run your life and home, what you can and can't do, what they don't like in and on your property. They are quick to hand out citations and fines, they like tl cit ridiculous rules and regulations.
Extramarital affairs, and lying about them, ended the Presidential and Vice-Presidential ambitions of Gary Hart and John Edwards. Why is it a "witch hunt" for Trump to be treated the same as one-time Democratic hopefuls?
Frum promoting criminal activity is sad. He hasn’t a clue what the DA has in addition to the 34 charges but he opines that hey this sleazy guy isn’t worth the effort. In other words he is above the law. You can do better David.
So did the Biden DOJ "promote criminal activity" and decide that Trump is "above the law" when they took a pass on this stretch of a case? Do you really want a world of relentless martinet justice, no expense spared, massive resources lavished to sniff out and hunt down and maximum sentence for every single violation? Every single time someone exceeds the speed limit by 1mph? Every 18 year old who makes a dumb decision ground into mincemeat by the crushing system?
Can't wait to jail this corrupt prosecutor for prosecutorial misconduct. There's no crime and everyone knows it. Thank you for giving Trump this win just from your sheer stupidity.
If you do away with Republicans than the Fascist can have their way as a single ruling party who can craft society into whatever they want. The Party's future or Our future as a Nation?
I'm sitting on pins and needles hoping to hear more about The Lincoln Project. I know precious little about politics, especially U.S. politics, but I thought that The Lincoln Project was in the fight to restore ethical Republican governance. Maybe it's because I'm a Tommy Douglas Social Democrat and prefer Bernie Saunders' politics.
You need to check out MEIDAS TOUCH NEWS NETWORK (MTN) most easily accessed via TH-cam. Wednesdays and Saturdays they have "LEGAL AF" and Sunday night Anthony Davis' THE SUNDAY SHOW. These are just a few that could inform you 😉
They are a group of never youknowwhos who started against him to drive him over the edge and, maybe that was wrong knowing how volatile he is bc look at him now. But anyway they are all over TH-cam with numerous videos ads and podcasts. Good Luck 👍
David, do yourself a favor, watch Glenn Kirschner on this indictment and then come on again parroting the line that these charges are insignificant...Then look up confirmation bias.
I watch all of Kirchner's videos and I actually think Frum is right. They need to get Trump on some significant stuff - which there should be lots of it if he's half as bad as he's made out to believe. I hope he ends up in jail for significant stuff but even I wouldn't put him in jail for the porn payoff stuff. Trump has done so many horrendous things and if this is all they can get him on then it'd be a sad day indeed.
“They’re drifting away from people as they are”. And what could be a more striking example of that than the events in Tennessee just hours after this interview?
The line you attributed to Warren Buffett was voiced long ago by Otto von Bismarck! “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
Frum reminds me of all the Marxist intellectuals who suddenly, in the early 1990s, had to deal with the obvious fact that the Communist regimes that they had encouraged and promoted were monstrous tyrannies rejected by the populations they ruled ---- something which decent people knew from the beginning, but which the intellectuals had wilfully blinded themselves to. Frum's Conservatism is a virtual clone of Communism. It appeals to the same type of intellectual and commits the same crimes. Like the academic Marxists, he struggles desperately to preserve the crackpot economic theories that led him to supporting monsters. He will not self-examine. He will not own up to the crimes he was complicit with in the past. Is he saying "Hey, I was totally wrong when I worshipped Reagan when he supported bloodthirsty religious fanatic dictators and helped them slaughter peasants, and wrong to support the crackpot economic theories that destroyed America's middle class prosperity, and wrong when I helped billionaires undermine and sabotage democracy." Nope. You find his type all over the universities of Europe. Intellectuals exactly like Frum did everything in their power to support Communist tyrannies, then, when the horrors could not longer be covered up or excused, cluck-clucked and tut-tutted their way into a pretense that they had nothing to do with them and "always" had opposed them. The Conservative movement that Frum dedicated his life to is exactly the same thing as the Communist movement that it always envied and mimicked. Frum was perfectly happy when the Republican-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt declared that he would rule "with a Bible in one hand and a machine gun in the other" and slaughtered helpless peasants by the thousand (while Reagan declared him a saint). He was perfectly happy when Conservatives made bribery and corruption the foundation of American politics. He is not someone we should be looking to in order to overcome Trump and his sick totalitarian cult.
Purple prose and pompous straw-manning. The Cold War wasn't tiddlywinks, it was a maximum-stakes grinding contest over whether or not the Soviets would be able to conquer the world, either one bit at a time, or eventually (having achieved military dominance) all at once via ultimatum or attack. The task of a statesman or ordinary citizen is to see who or what is the biggest and most immediate threat, then isolate that threat from as many other power centers as possible (resources, allies) while connecting yourself to as many power centers as possible. When that threat is then neutralized or sufficiently reduced, re-calibrate to see what the biggest most immediate threat is at that point and act accordingly. Lather rinse repeat. What you're doing is like getting all elaborately judgy over America having allied with the Sicilian Mob and the British Empire and the Soviet Union in the death-struggle with the Axis. Oh no, the Mob were crooks and the British did this and that objectionable bad thing to crush independence movements. Stalin was a mass murdering monster. All true, but the proper evaluation is not to compare to saintly purity but TO THE ALTERNATIVE. Stalin was a monster but Hitler was WORSE. Stalin did not actually intend to exterminate entire nations. He actually believed his crackpottery would lead to more prosperity and happiness, while Hitler INTENDED slavery and death forever to outgroups he subjugated and invaded. This is why we allied with Stalin against Hitler. Once Hitler was beaten, then it was appropriate to re-evaluate the world in its new situation and see Stalin as the remaining big threat. That's not a character flaw, not moral evasiveness evading accountability, for the "crime" of having helped Stalin's regime during the war. It's remaining true to the same principles while being pragmatic and applying them a new to new situations. Yes various tinpot dictators in the Cold War were bad men and compared to saintly virtue were horrible. But compared to the nightmare of that country becoming another gulag regime let alone a North Korea, they were preferable, especially because they were local rather than part of some global scheme of conquest. Looking at the world through a soda straw, not seeing the broader picture, is either ignorant or deceptive.
@@IrishCarney As someone who was intimately familiar and involved with the struggle against Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe in the 1980's, I have a lifetime of familiarity with this kind of pompous, nonsensical "realpolitik" sophistry. It's always trotted out to support any corrupt or obviously evil action. Communists spout exactly the same nonsense when attempting to justify their intimate alliance with the Nazis. Republican support for brutal dictators like Ríos Montt had NOTHING to do with fighting against Communism, and EVERYTHING to do with fattening the coffers of their corporate friends. Supporting democracy in Latin America would have done infinitely more to combat the Communist threat than murdering peasants to make bananas cheaper. You seem to think you have some sort of sophisticated view of history. You don't.
Geez, fellas, this is the worst analysis I've seen yet, of the indictment. Do your homework to avoid looking so ignorant. I'm just a regular dude, and I know more than you guys do about the case.
I know some come here to criticise Frum for the Bush years and Iraq war. I feel he's changed, moved on and has many grounded and sensible ideas that could truly help the conservative and democratic parties in North America and the West. He is a wealth of ideas from a right leaning candidate and these days that's a hard thing to find.
I am on the far left but appreciate hearing David Frum's commentary very much.
David Frum so credible!
Thank you!
Would Trump have been ELECTED had the stories come out ! The effect of the crimes were significant
Love David Frum!
Thank you for doing these. Great to listen to some rational thought.
Ah yes, "rational thought" from one of the architects from the Iraq War and the weapons of mass destruction lie.
After watching your interviews I always feel that I have learned something. On the subject of being a better informed voter the thing that I find most frustrating is the way that Politicians refuse to answer the difficult questions asked by the media. Rather they pivot their response and reply with meaningless platitudes on subjects that may or may not be related to the specific question asked. This is done by all Canadian Politicians regardless of Party - so I don’t blame them. What I don’t understand is why the press is not more insistent on having them answer the specific question directly. Doing this would help us voters decide. I would be interested in David’s views on the subject of media coverage of the political process.
Increasingly of the opinion that Trump should be prosecuted for all his crimes large or small. The message has to be sent that eventually anyone committing such crimes will be held accountable. This is an important principle to reaffirm in a major democracy but more important it sends a clear message to others who might try the same playbook that at the very least they will be mired in legal jeopardy for years to come. Also the enablers who surrounded him should him should face jail time.
Ofcourse there is anger, there’s no healthcare, there’s no reins on corporate greed, ppl die from preventable illness, and cruelty and selfishness are perpetuated.
..well, this looks fun.
This case Will Lead to a Guilty Verdict!... The Man of Little Brain and Big Balls....
Clearly you did not understand NY law, therefore you are I’ll equipped to speak about our law.
GOP is to politics as the WWE is to wrestling
Here is something larger to imagine:
1. DOES DAVID THINK CANADIANS ARE FREE OR NOT?
2. WHAT DOES DAVID THINK ABOUT THE CANADIAN POLITICAL PERSON & THE FUTURE OF CANADA?
3. WHY DOES CANADA CHOOSE TO CALL JULY 1ST AS CANADA DAY AS OPPOSED TO INDEPENDENCE DAY?
4. "ARE THESE ROBSTERS CANADIAN...." HOW TRUE IS THIS BACKDROP IN CANADIAN POLITICAL FREEDOM?
Frum, one of the original architects of Republican duplicity. Funny how our media recycle these folks.
Need a light for your Saddam memorial candle?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@IrishCarney need a book on ethics?
Ultra right conservative minority rule has been dominating American politics since Richard NIXON, Newt Gingrich and Roger Ailes !
I'm revolted by Pompeo, DeSantis, and Haley. They believe what Trump believes. So what's the difference? The problem is that even responsible conservatism is a losing proposition for our future. I think the progressive effort to level the economic playing field and eliminate the huge discrepancy in income and wealth is essential if our democracy is going to survive.
HOT STOVE lesson number 1...
Gag Order, lesson number 2...
F around and find out.
That's what Trump is saying to them.
The Manhattan indictment will look like a curious sideshow when the more serious deluge of charges comes raining down in Georgia and from the DOJ within the next few weeks. In the meantime, the Manhattan DOJ is doing his damn job, which is something I was not expecting. Some, like Frum, may think the indictment is a nothing burger, but sometimes you need an appetizer, even if it's somewhat underwhelming, while you're waiting for that spectacular main course.
It's funny that you dorks think that these charges are legit while everyone who reads them can tell that it's a political hit job. You cultists have no idea how bad you've already lost.
When you see Garland behind and not moving I don't know what else could be done. Garland has been a massive disappointment. Why, why did Garland not move on this in February 2021? All of it.
Because he knew it was bogus because he's not as dumb as you.
The Republican Party has become the nation's HOA.
Please don't say that.
HOA ?
@@renzo6490 Home owners association.
They tell you how to run your life and home, what you can and can't do, what they don't like in and on your property.
They are quick to hand out citations and fines, they like tl cit ridiculous rules and regulations.
Extramarital affairs, and lying about them, ended the Presidential and Vice-Presidential ambitions of Gary Hart and John Edwards. Why is it a "witch hunt" for Trump to be treated the same as one-time Democratic hopefuls?
I’m a retired attorney and I believe this guys opinion is absolutely worthless. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Next court hearing in New York v Trump is in freaking December. Speedy trial? Nope.
It's called Election Interference.
@@pecquet-dubalaix8288 No, because a trial isn't an election.
@@jim2376 Later.
@@pecquet-dubalaix8288 Yep. That's the word. Later. Like in December. Eight months later.
Frum promoting criminal activity is sad. He hasn’t a clue what the DA has in addition to the 34 charges but he opines that hey this sleazy guy isn’t worth the effort. In other words he is above the law. You can do better David.
So did the Biden DOJ "promote criminal activity" and decide that Trump is "above the law" when they took a pass on this stretch of a case? Do you really want a world of relentless martinet justice, no expense spared, massive resources lavished to sniff out and hunt down and maximum sentence for every single violation? Every single time someone exceeds the speed limit by 1mph? Every 18 year old who makes a dumb decision ground into mincemeat by the crushing system?
Can't wait to jail this corrupt prosecutor for prosecutorial misconduct. There's no crime and everyone knows it. Thank you for giving Trump this win just from your sheer stupidity.
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If you do away with Republicans than the Fascist can have their way as a single ruling party who can craft society into whatever they want. The Party's future or Our future as a Nation?
This era will be called "How the GOP got everything they wanted and lost it all". Vote
I'm sitting on pins and needles hoping to hear more about The Lincoln Project. I know precious little about politics, especially U.S. politics, but I thought that The Lincoln Project was in the fight to restore ethical Republican governance. Maybe it's because I'm a Tommy Douglas Social Democrat and prefer Bernie Saunders' politics.
You need to check out MEIDAS TOUCH NEWS NETWORK (MTN) most easily accessed via TH-cam. Wednesdays and Saturdays they have "LEGAL AF" and Sunday night Anthony Davis' THE SUNDAY SHOW. These are just a few that could inform you 😉
They are a group of never youknowwhos who started against him to drive him over the edge and, maybe that was wrong knowing how volatile he is bc look at him now. But anyway they are all over TH-cam with numerous videos ads and podcasts. Good Luck 👍
What does being attacked on a subway have anything to do with conservatism ? I don’t get why you think this is a political party issue?
Your mother is ashamed of you, Mr. Frum.
David, do yourself a favor, watch Glenn Kirschner on this indictment and then come on again parroting the line that these charges are insignificant...Then look up confirmation bias.
I watch all of Kirchner's videos and I actually think Frum is right. They need to get Trump on some significant stuff - which there should be lots of it if he's half as bad as he's made out to believe. I hope he ends up in jail for significant stuff but even I wouldn't put him in jail for the porn payoff stuff. Trump has done so many horrendous things and if this is all they can get him on then it'd be a sad day indeed.
“They’re drifting away from people as they are”.
And what could be a more striking example of that than the events in Tennessee just hours after this interview?
Frum will have to get over his TDS if he wants to stay relevant. Poll numbers put Trump way ahead of DeSantis
But without much hope of getting elected unless he can widen his appeal or the Democrats do something catastrophic.
The line you attributed to Warren Buffett was voiced long ago by Otto von Bismarck!
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
His role in the destructive rise of German nationalism suggests he authored that great quip as a devout hypocrite.
Frum reminds me of all the Marxist intellectuals who suddenly, in the early 1990s, had to deal with the obvious fact that the Communist regimes that they had encouraged and promoted were monstrous tyrannies rejected by the populations they ruled ---- something which decent people knew from the beginning, but which the intellectuals had wilfully blinded themselves to. Frum's Conservatism is a virtual clone of Communism. It appeals to the same type of intellectual and commits the same crimes. Like the academic Marxists, he struggles desperately to preserve the crackpot economic theories that led him to supporting monsters. He will not self-examine. He will not own up to the crimes he was complicit with in the past. Is he saying "Hey, I was totally wrong when I worshipped Reagan when he supported bloodthirsty religious fanatic dictators and helped them slaughter peasants, and wrong to support the crackpot economic theories that destroyed America's middle class prosperity, and wrong when I helped billionaires undermine and sabotage democracy." Nope. You find his type all over the universities of Europe. Intellectuals exactly like Frum did everything in their power to support Communist tyrannies, then, when the horrors could not longer be covered up or excused, cluck-clucked and tut-tutted their way into a pretense that they had nothing to do with them and "always" had opposed them. The Conservative movement that Frum dedicated his life to is exactly the same thing as the Communist movement that it always envied and mimicked. Frum was perfectly happy when the Republican-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt declared that he would rule "with a Bible in one hand and a machine gun in the other" and slaughtered helpless peasants by the thousand (while Reagan declared him a saint). He was perfectly happy when Conservatives made bribery and corruption the foundation of American politics. He is not someone we should be looking to in order to overcome Trump and his sick totalitarian cult.
Purple prose and pompous straw-manning. The Cold War wasn't tiddlywinks, it was a maximum-stakes grinding contest over whether or not the Soviets would be able to conquer the world, either one bit at a time, or eventually (having achieved military dominance) all at once via ultimatum or attack. The task of a statesman or ordinary citizen is to see who or what is the biggest and most immediate threat, then isolate that threat from as many other power centers as possible (resources, allies) while connecting yourself to as many power centers as possible. When that threat is then neutralized or sufficiently reduced, re-calibrate to see what the biggest most immediate threat is at that point and act accordingly. Lather rinse repeat.
What you're doing is like getting all elaborately judgy over America having allied with the Sicilian Mob and the British Empire and the Soviet Union in the death-struggle with the Axis. Oh no, the Mob were crooks and the British did this and that objectionable bad thing to crush independence movements. Stalin was a mass murdering monster. All true, but the proper evaluation is not to compare to saintly purity but TO THE ALTERNATIVE. Stalin was a monster but Hitler was WORSE. Stalin did not actually intend to exterminate entire nations. He actually believed his crackpottery would lead to more prosperity and happiness, while Hitler INTENDED slavery and death forever to outgroups he subjugated and invaded. This is why we allied with Stalin against Hitler. Once Hitler was beaten, then it was appropriate to re-evaluate the world in its new situation and see Stalin as the remaining big threat. That's not a character flaw, not moral evasiveness evading accountability, for the "crime" of having helped Stalin's regime during the war. It's remaining true to the same principles while being pragmatic and applying them a new to new situations.
Yes various tinpot dictators in the Cold War were bad men and compared to saintly virtue were horrible. But compared to the nightmare of that country becoming another gulag regime let alone a North Korea, they were preferable, especially because they were local rather than part of some global scheme of conquest.
Looking at the world through a soda straw, not seeing the broader picture, is either ignorant or deceptive.
@@IrishCarney As someone who was intimately familiar and involved with the struggle against Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe in the 1980's, I have a lifetime of familiarity with this kind of pompous, nonsensical "realpolitik" sophistry. It's always trotted out to support any corrupt or obviously evil action. Communists spout exactly the same nonsense when attempting to justify their intimate alliance with the Nazis.
Republican support for brutal dictators like Ríos Montt had NOTHING to do with fighting against Communism, and EVERYTHING to do with fattening the coffers of their corporate friends. Supporting democracy in Latin America would have done infinitely more to combat the Communist threat than murdering peasants to make bananas cheaper.
You seem to think you have some sort of sophisticated view of history. You don't.
Geez, fellas, this is the worst analysis I've seen yet, of the indictment. Do your homework to avoid looking so ignorant.
I'm just a regular dude, and I know more than you guys do about the case.
I know some come here to criticise Frum for the Bush years and Iraq war. I feel he's changed, moved on and has many grounded and sensible ideas that could truly help the conservative and democratic parties in North America and the West. He is a wealth of ideas from a right leaning candidate and these days that's a hard thing to find.
He left behind many dead by the hundreds of thousands in the killing fields of the Middle East by the Americans.
No!!! ABSOLUTELY WRONG
PROSECUTE DUMP FOR EVERY GD CRIME. LARGE AND SMALL
It's just too bad you fascists have to make up crimes because you can't win legitimate elections.