John McWhorter – Last Words before the Election
The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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[Note: In the episode, John mistakenly referred to the author of a biography of Ronald Reagan as George Will. He meant to reference Max Boot’s Reagan: His Life and Legacy.]
1:39 Pre-election jitters
3:23 Will Democrats contest the election if it goes Trump’s way?
4:44 A crisis for democracy, maybe, but not the end of democracy
10:02 John’s case against Trump’s proposed second administration
15:36 Ground News ad
17:28 The Obamas’ attempted intervention and post-presidential performance
26:58 The mind of the informed Trump voter
34:20 A revisionist history of the Trump presidency (or presidencies)
41:15 Is Trump losing it or just tired of campaigning?
44:25 The Washington Post and the LA Times decline to endorse
47:48 Glenn and John’s election night plans
50:48 The nightmare scenario
Recorded November 3, 2024
Links and Readings
Shelby Steele’s book, A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited about Obama and Why He Can’t Win
Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
John’s NYT column, “Donald Trump Is Bored”
Max Boot’s book, Reagan: His Life and Legacy
Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Series DVD box set
Douglas Murray’s Free Press piece, “Things Worth Remembering: Whoever Loses, They Should Lose Like Nixon”
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| 0:00.0 | Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to the Glenn Show at glenlawry.substack.com. |
| 0:06.6 | As a subscriber, you will receive new episodes on Mondays instead of Fridays and get access to ticket pre-sales to live events, monthly Q&As with Glenn Laurie and John McWhorter, exclusive content and other benefits. |
| 0:21.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:24.4 | This is Glenn Lowry. |
| 0:25.8 | You've tuned into the Glenn Show with John McWhorter. |
| 0:28.5 | There's John. |
| 0:29.2 | Hey, John. |
| 0:29.7 | How you doing? |
| 0:30.4 | Hey, Glenn. |
| 0:30.9 | How are you? |
| 0:32.4 | I've been better. |
| 0:33.7 | I've been better. |
| 0:34.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:35.0 | My mood is a little low today. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm not sure what it is. |
| 0:37.7 | I didn't sleep so well last night. |
| 0:41.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:42.2 | Maybe it's a pending sense of doom that has overtaken me two days before the presidential election of 2024. |
| 0:50.1 | It comes to a conclusion. |
| 0:51.7 | It's been going on for some time. |
| 0:53.9 | I don't know. But I'm Glenn Lowry. |
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