Roundup Wired: How Charlie Crack changed the conservative media
Zoë Schiffer: So where, for example, traditional right -wing media, like Fox News, leaves? Is this a replacement of it or does it work simultaneously?
Jake Lahout: I think it’s more in the back. Last night, Fox programming was dominated by crack assassination. I think for many of Fox’s main characters, people like Charlie Kirk, and I guess that in the wider cinematic world of USA USA, these young faces are very important, because I think many conservative TVs are more host to make that audience and not introduce themselves to homes every night. And this is just an interesting thing, because the Democrats have been trying to do this for a while, and as we mentioned earlier, the conventional wisdom stated that the Democrats always have the advantage of young voters. So I think it’s very interesting to see what the United States will be after this. And then to what extent this door it opened, only with a different type of character, another type of charisma may be more severe in some issues. So there is a very legal and almost legal vacuum that opens here because he was in this sense of conservative policies of such a singular figure.
Zoë Schiffer: So the creation of a new branch of right -wing media towards younger audiences is definitely an important part of the legacy of crack. And also the legacy he has left in politics, such as his rhetoric towards transistors, immigrants, his rhetoric on abortion rights. These things really stick to me. Talk to me about it, the effect that he may be out of.
Jake Lahout: Yes, I think this work contradicts that we see this terrible incident. Certainly there is an almost sacred way that he was painted after his death, and I think part of it is that he was an organizer and was not a candidate, so he never received this kind of review or he really had to make difficult choices. He has always been more in the realm of economics, the territory of financial assistance and the voter participation area. So I think he now remembers more for his true commitment to freedom of discussion and willingly want to interact with people who may never talk to each other or disagree on politics. But then you have a lot of things that he said about controlling weapons, for example, it is effectively valuable to have some weapon death, to paragraph what he has said here to protect the second amendment. She was asked if one of her daughters, who was 10 years old at the time, if she was raped and pregnant, would she want her to do pregnancy for pregnancy? And he basically said yes, where he should be a child. Another area that I think may have the most impact has been added to the real rapidly, that his view of what is in college and adulthood is very different from what we are usually heard from the young people involved in politics. He showed a positive view of going to the university for young people. Now, this view was effective for women, like you have to go to college just to find a husband, and that’s almost that’s. But he presented that view of the like, “Hi, in the US, you are told that your profession and pressure and grinding are most important. I am really here to tell you that you have only one family and you have children.” And we saw a poll that recently came out of the NBC News, where Gen Z Men did not have the number one child, and no other population. While the women of General Z in terms of a sustainable profession, mental well -being, all those things mentioned other things. So this is a matter of his legacy that I think is worth pursuing it, because he was really just a man on college campus. And I don’t think anyone will immediately replace that role, but if we understand that he really changed our policy beyond an election or a series of quotes he has given him, I look at it, which many young people are really admired by this man, but you may not know many of them, but you can only know.
Zoë Schiffer: Jake, thank you very much for joining me today.
Jake Lahout: Zoë, so much thanks
Zoë Schiffer: This is our show for today. We will link to all the stories we talked about on the show’s notes. Adriana Tapia produced this part. Ammar Lal in Macrosvand mixed this part. Kate Osborne is our executive producer. Condé Nast is the head of Global Audio Chris Bannon and Kitty Drumvand is the Wired World Editorial Director.
