The Homeless Conservative

Ron DeSantis has suspended his campaign just days after the Iowa Caucus. So, it's officially (barely) a two-person race between Donald Trump and Nikki Haley. It seemed appropriate to talk about DeSantis' exit as voters go to the polls Tuesday in New Hampshire, so you get a bonus episode of the podcast this week. Hooray!

The Republican presidential primary voting officially kicked off in Iowa this week. And almost nothing was interesting about it. Trump won by a gigantic margin and I'd argue neither Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis gathered any momentum heading to New Hampshire next week. Will anyone drop out? Will either DeSantis or Haley change their strategies to try and actually win the nomination? Or are they...

I talk with Will Reusch, a high school social studies teacher, about what we’re not properly teaching Americans about civics. Will has his own podcast, Cylinder Radio , and you can find him on Instagram and YouTube . He is also working on a homeschool curriculum that will be released for the Fall 2024 school year. You can find more at williamreusch.com .  Takeaways Teaching viewpoint diversity and...

Full disclosure - I suck at making predictions. Politics just has too many variables to possibly be very right about predictions made months or a year in advance. Or, at least that's what I tell myself. So this is less of a list of things I think will happen, and more a list of things I think will be important to pay attention to in 2024 leading up to the November elections.

I don't normally talk about things as fresh as the news that the Colorado State Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump can't be on the Republican presidential primary ballot, but this seems consequential enough to do so. To quickly catch you up, the Colorado court is saying that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualifies Trump from holding elected office again because he took part in an i...

The terrorist attacks in Israel over the weekend are completely inexcusable, but that won't stop some on the Left from making excuses for Hamas' vile war crimes. Because everything these days is about sorting into political "sides", you may have noticed significantly different coverage of the attacks depending on your news source. I'm definitely not an Israel or middle east f...

As if Donald Trump wasn't up by 40-50 points in early primary state polls, the other 4 candidates fighting for second place (for which there is no trophy, it should be noted) got together to debate the important issues last week during the 4th Republican presidential debate. Unfortunately for them (Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Vivek Ramaswamy), Republican voters don't see...

I promise I checked the math (I had great math teachers). A Department of Education report from 2004 estimated that 7.5% of students in America are sexually abused, with contact, at some point in their K-12 ≈53,000,000 students in K-12 in the US ÷ 13 (because it happens sometime in the 13 years they're in school) x 7.5% = 305,769 (if we're being exact) per year That number makes no sense t...

Subscribe here, on Instagram , and check out my free newsletter on Substack I had to do a solo episode just to talk about the various things on my mind. I jump from the state of the Republican presidential primary post the third debate, move on to talking about the seemingly inevitable Trump/Biden rematch and how despite huge chunks of the country and people within the parties thinking neither are...

The opioid crisis has been slowly getting worse over the past decades, but seemed to reach a critical mass during COVID. Even though opioid related deaths had been growing every year, 2020 still saw a 37% increase in deaths (68,630) over the previous year (50,042). 2021 saw even more opioid overdose deaths.  One demographic overrepresented in these deaths of despair is single prime-age men. Patric...

The most recent active shooter attack in Maine brought out the calls for so-called “common sense gun control laws”, which is understandable in the aftermath of a tragedy. The Left typically demands the usual list - ban AR-15s, require universal background checks, repeal the 2nd amendment, etc. and accuse conservatives of not caring about innocent civilians dying. I thought it would be a good idea...

UPDATE: I recorded this Tuesday night, and so of course, it's slightly out of date. Since recording Republicans selected Mike Johnson of Louisiana to put forward as their Speaker candidate. In case you were wondering, he's all-in on the stolen election narrative, so while I'm sure he'll have Trump's support, he probably can't get what the press keeps calling "moderate&...

My friend Courtney and I had originally planned on talking about Ukraine, but we completely derailed and talked about almost everything BUT Ukraine. 0:00 - Intro 2:16 - What's wrong with primary voters? 5:47 - It's the economy, stupid! 9:45 - How is the President important in the shaping of ecomonic policy and budgets in Congress? 00:11:53 - Is it concerning that the US is $33 Trillion dol...

My neighbor Mackenzie joins me again for a discussion about how her favorite candidate, Ron DeSantis, and others did in the second Republican debate. Did anyone stand out? Does any of this matter when Donald Trump is absolutely crushing this group of candidates in the polls? We're not sure.

Due to the declining number of romantic relationships and falling prices of lab-made diamonds, some companies have begun marketing diamonds as platonic - something you could buy for your sister or friend. Will Gen Z go for it? Haley Strack wrote her take on the marketing trend in National Review, and was kind enough to join me to talk about it.  Haley is the William F. Buckley Fellow in Political...

Gun control advocates often site Australia's gun "ban" (which wasn't a ban - they didn't get rid of all guns, contrary to popular belief on the Left) as a model for the US to adopt to solve gun violence. But how effective has it been in Australia? And is the policy replicable in the US? My friend Derek and I discuss. A few numbers for you: The Australian government bought bac...

My neighbor Doug joins me to talk about his views on America as an immigrant (and now citizen) from South Africa. We talk about how US citizens aren't doing the basic research to find out if what their news sources are telling them, as well as Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter (oh, sorry - X, now).

My wife and I watched the first Republican primary debate together (don't worry, we had drinks to get us through it). Elyse is not as politically obsessed as I am, so I thought her opinions of the candidates would be interesting to hear since she's more representative of average voters. To save you from having to listen to a 3 hour episode, I've cut it down to the interesting bits. Due...

Follow and join the conversation on Youtube , Instagram , and Facebook Another day, another Trump indictment. And since my last discussion about previous indictments was with my friend Kelley, we thought we should just pick our conversation back up and talk about these new federal charges for this episode. Don't worry - we get off topic plenty and move to talking about Biden's mental fitne...

Happy Independence Day, everyone! No guest on this episode - instead I just talk about Hunter Biden’s legal woes and about how bad the conspiracy theory explanations for everything have gotten on the left and right these days.

Subscribe here and on ⁠ YouTube⁠  and  ⁠Instagram⁠ for additional content My friend Kelley correctly feels like she's been constantly hearing about the impending criminal charges coming for Donald Trump since 2015. And she's not wrong about how they often turned out to be nothing-burgers. So why should she pay any attention to the most recent indictments for the classified documents Trump...

Subscribe here and on ⁠ YouTube⁠  and  ⁠Instagram⁠ for additional content Are tribal politics replacing things like patriotism, religion, having kids, and community service? My friend Jacob and I discuss a (probably flawed) Wall Street Journal poll that finds the rates Americans say these things are important to them is falling fast, and we try to offer explanations as to why. Is it the media? The...

My neighbor Mackenzie is super excited about Ron DeSantis finally getting in the Republican presidential primary. She joins me on the show to talk about why he's her choice for 2024, but I have concerns. Is he "likable" enough for voters? Can he please enough of both former Trump supporters and the very anti-Trump factions of the Republican party to form a winning coalition? Will his...

On the first episode of the show, I figured I'd take a moment to explain where I'm coming from and why I wanted to start a political podcast. In a late night stream of consciousness I rambled my way through explaining my basic views on the current state of the Republican party and conservatism, and why I feel, well, homeless. This is a show where I'll have conversations about conservat...