Chris Stirewalt is back on The Remnant to discuss how we can make politics boring again. As Chris observes, we’ve entered a “wilderness of grifts,” where opportunistic nationalism and Lincoln Project-style chicanery are all the rage. Meanwhile, a new group is trying to turn Joe Biden into FDR, factions on the right are embracing the progressive vision of government, and rage clicks are poisoning the political well. What can we learn from Lincoln in this bizarre moment? How do Americans really feel about abortion? And will Chris finally make a pious man out of Jonah?

Show Notes:
-The Morning Dispatch breaks down the infrastructure negotiations
-The Jane Mayer piece that made Jonah’s morning
-Jonah explores Trump’s grip on the GOP
-Ave, true to Trump
-Trump’s endorsement goes awry in Texas
-The Remnant with Dan McLaughlin
-Biden’s team of rivals
-The Great Debate, by Yuval Levin
-Jonah’s decadent dysfunction
-Jonah on the implications of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
-The real great debate
-A musical mystery
-Chris’ Instagram, where the magic happens
-Kevin Williamson on the big white ghetto