Red State·2 hours ago·Friday, November 6, 2026, 11:10 AM

Hot Takes: Former Conservative Thought Leader Has Thoughts, and Proves Why He Is Now Irrelevant

Dogpatch Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg used to be a darling in the conservative movement and right-wing circles. Until, like many of his Northern Virginia, Fox News-panel, cocktail-swilling buddies, he became high on his own supply and devolved from darling to deranged. Now he sits on the pile of former conservative thought leaders who Trump broke: David French, George Will, and the Bulwark brain trusts Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes.

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