This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit radixjournal.substack.comRichard infuriatingly suggests that even if MAGA were correct about everything they claim about the 2020 election, they would still be pathological—and ultimately still avoiding the real causes of their trauma and distress. In the full discussion, Mark Brahmin joins the gang to lay out the groundwork for his upcoming b…
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| It was said by Lacan about the man who is obsessed with his wife cheating on him, the notion of his wife being adulterous. | |
| And so he is doing everything. | |
| He's spying on his own wife. | |
| He's checking her bags, reading the receipts that he might find to see if she went out to some fancy restaurant. | |
| He's just, you know, stays up all night, doesn't get any sleep because... | |
| He thinks she might be leaving at 3 a.m. to meet her lover or something like that. | |
| He just kind of ruins his life due to this obsession. | |
| And Lacombe said even if his wife actually were sleeping with someone, it doesn't change the fact that what he's doing is pathological. | |
| So even if he finds the truth, In a way, it doesn't tell you the real truth of why are you so obsessed with this? | |
| Yes. | |
| Maybe it's actually kind of... | |
| Don't quote me on this, but maybe actually looking the other way might actually be your best move. | |
| Don't ruin your marriage. | |
| You've got a good wife. | |
| Look the other way and then try to solve the problem as opposed to... | |
| Obsessing about it and then freaking out. | |
| And so I think it's very similar with Stop the Steal where, I mean, look, obviously in every election that's ever taken place, there's some weird thing about it. | |
| And there's some fairly good cases you can make about social media censoring and mostly censoring the right. | |
| Maybe censoring the left a little bit, but mostly censoring the right. | |
| Twitter kicked the Hunter Biden laptop off the network. | |
| It's just unfair. | |
| Mail-in voting seems to help out Democrats, and that was promoted. | |
| It just seems unfair. | |
| I might even kind of agree with a lot of those things. | |
| But even if you could find George Soros himself, Stuffing ballot boxes. | |
| It doesn't change the pathological nature of what you're doing. | |
| Yes. | |
| So it's like you feel like you've lost your country due to a number of very important things. | |
| Just generational and cultural change that is seemingly profound. | |
| We get that. | |
| Hollowing out of the middle class. | |
| We got it. | |
| The racial transformation that might not even be taking place in your hometown, but is taking place in the media you see, on social media, etc. | |
| You know, Black Lives Matter riots that seem to be kind of like cheered on and were, to be fair, cheered on by... | |
| The Democratic establishment and upper crust white liberals living in Arlington, Virginia or something. | |
| But it's like that's the issue. | |
| And so that expresses itself as the election was stolen. | |
| So you're really not ultimately solving anything. | |
| Even if you were able to win January 6th, none of those problems would go away. | |
| And so it is pathological, regardless of what the facts are. | |
| Now, I have never seen anything convincing or even compelling about the election being stolen. | |
| Outside of some of those things, I kind of agree, actually, about the early voting. | |
| I think you should vote on the fucking day. | |
| Get off your ass, you know? | |
| Like, I don't like this mail-in. | |
| Maybe if you're in the army or something, you're stationed in Germany, you could do that. | |
| But I think you should vote on the day. | |
| And I agree. | |
| I don't like the conservatives, but I kind of agree that they get the short end of the stick when it comes to social media censorship. | |
| Even that is kind of interesting because it demonstrates how powerful social media was in 2016 and how pro-Trump it was. | |
| But those aren't fraud arguments. | |
| They're just kind of issues of fairness and stuff like that. |