Daniel McCarthy On Trump And Conservatism
From The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan
June 12, 2026 · 53 min
About this episode
Daniel McCarthy discusses Trump and conservatism, providing an intelligent defense of Trump's presidency.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Daniel, previously the editor-at-large at The American Conservative, is currently the editor of Modern Age, a conservative academic quarterly journal. He’s also a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation and a columnist for The Spectator — and one of the few Trump supporters allowed to write op-eds for the NYT. I wanted to engage the most intelligent defense of Trump I could find. And Dan did not disappoint. But you be the judge. For two clips of the episode — on Trump as a corrective to the liberal establishment, and questioning how revolutionary the American Revolution really was — head to our YouTube page . Other topics: born into a Navy family in Missouri; going to UK grammar school in the Thatcher years; George III; Locke and self-government; the French Revolution and Jefferson; Washington and US neutrality; Jackson and populism; the Spanish-American War; Burke and Oakeshott; paleoconservatism and Pat Buchanan; the rise of China’s economy; the managerial elite; mass migration; multiculturalism; Obama the deporter-in-chief; nuke proliferation and the JCPOA…
People in this episode
Host: Andrew Sullivan
Guest: Daniel McCarthy
Topics covered
- Trump and conservatism
- political commentary
- American history
- populism
- nationalism
- liberal establishment
- immigration
Keywords
- Trump
- conservatism
- politics
- American Revolution
- populism
- nationalism
- immigration
- January 6
- Biden
- Obama
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The American Conservative, Modern Age, Heritage Foundation, The Spectator
Places: Palestine, Israel, China
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