On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” David opens with
his reflections on the recent shootings in Minneapolis. He argues
that these killings, alongside ICE’s warrantless home searches and
mistaken detentions, and the reports of deaths in custody, are not
isolated abuses but signs of a rapidly deepening crisis in American
democracy, one in which basic rights and due process are applied
unevenly and are increasingly contested. David asks whether the
country can find a way back from a dangerous moral and political
impasse, as a majority of Americans recoil from these actions while
a determined minority continue to defend them. Then, David is
joined by the “New York Times” columnist and Atlantic contributor
David Brooks. Frum and Brooks discuss the origins of the term
“neoconservative,” what the neocons got right, and why they should
be listened to today. Brooks describes how America’s problems long
predate Trump, and why elections alone cannot fix what has been
lost. Together, Frum and Brooks explore whether the country is
capable of moral renewal, what rebuilding would actually require,
and why recovery, if and when it comes, will be slow, difficult,
and deeply personal. Finally, David ends the episode with his
thoughts on “Death by Lightning,” a television series on Netflix
based on the assassination of President James Garfield, and how,
when watching historical dramas, we need to look back on the past
with a contextual lens, one that we should bring to our present
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