Nobody Is Irredeemable Except on Twitter

• 47:56Tim argues entertainers should stop speaking up since the public rejected their messaging during the election.
• 48:19Democrats are doubling down on the attitudes that cost them the election—condescension, calling everyone Nazis, refusing to concede on border security.
• 49:01Tim thinks Bannon's right about something, but it's godless because it's not a moral move.
• 49:26People don't want to approach problems with victim mentality; they want strength and self-reliance, even if that's partly a myth.
• 50:23The quote 'don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good' explains what's wrong with purely ideological people.
• 51:02Lincoln wanted reconstruction to be gentler than Johnson's approach; isolating people just pushes them further into their ideological camps.
• 52:05Irredeemability as a concept is new and comes from the left—they'll redeem murderers but not people on the wrong Reddit thread.
• 52:40Tim imagines David Remnick replacing Bannon with him at the New Yorker festival and a room full of liberals eventually chanting for Bannon instead.
• 53:15Their worldview gets characterized as 'black pilling'—total nihilism that everything's fucked—which Tim says they don't actually believe.
• 53:41Black pilling means there is no hope and everything's fucked, a kind of total nihilism.

Steve BannonLouis C.K.The New YorkerDavid RemnickAbraham LincolnAndrew Johnson