Raging Moderates: How Trump’s Iran War Could Break the GOP (ft. Ben Shapiro)
4/22/202612 min
Thanks for listening to Raging Moderates on the Prof G feed. This is just a preview of today’s full episode — and soon, we’ll be leaving this feed entirely. To get the full episode, subscribe to the Raging Moderates feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. We’re dropping new episodes every weekday evening — five days a week. Subscribe on YouTube, or check us out on Substack if you want it ad-free. Just hours before a fragile ceasefire deadline, tensions between the U.S. and Iran are escalating — and the political fallout at home is already taking shape. Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov sit down with Ben Shapiro, one of the most influential voices on the right, who has called this the “single bravest foreign policy move” of his lifetime. But as the risk of a prolonged conflict grows, so do the stakes: for American power, for President Trump, and for the future of the Republican Party. They press Shapiro on whether this risks becoming the kind of “forever war” Republicans once opposed, what a realistic definition of “winning” actually looks like, and how this moment could reshape the GOP heading into 2028. They also dive into the fractures emerging inside the conservative movement — from Tucker Carlson and the right-wing media ecosystem to the growing divide among younger Republicans. Follow Jessica Tarlov, @JessicaTarlov Follow Prof G, @profgalloway Follow Raging Moderates, @RagingModeratesPod Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RagingModerates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jessica Tarlov· Host0:29
Hey, thanks for listening to Raging Moderates here on the Prof J feed. This is just a preview of today's episode, and soon we'll be leaving this feed entirely. To get the full episode, you'll want to subscribe to the Raging Moderates feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. We're dropping new episodes every weekday evening, so you can now get Scott and me five days a week. Subscribe on YouTube or check us out on Substack if you want it ad-free. All right, here's a preview of today's show.
Ben Shapiro· Guest0:53
Of course, there, there was always going to be fragmentation in a second term of a presidency because whoever is the uniting figure is no longer going to be the uniting figure three years from now. And so people inside that, that broader kind of movement start to look at, okay, who's the next guy? What is the next thing that's going to happen? And in the Republican Party, where there's pretty significant debate between a wide variety of wings on a lot of these matters, that, that is breaking out into the open. I, I don't find any of that particularly shocking. Uh, the only thing that I do find shocking is some of the, the sort of conspiratorial nonsense, uh, that, that has been promoted by, by some of these major influencers.
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