Ep. 2032 - The Right-Wing Burrito Fight EXPLAINED

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
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**Michael Knowles** (0:29)
I'm Michael Knowles.

**Michael Knowles** (0:29)
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Welcome back to the show. A WNBA player is writing years, decades, if not centuries of racial injustice by introducing a black doll. There are no black, she said, growing up, there were no black Barbie dolls, and she's going to write that wrong, even though she's like 12 and the black Barbie was introduced in 1967 We will get to imaginary racial injustice. First, I got to start with the Burrito Gate.
There is so much within a burrito. You know, rice and beans and pork. No, there's so much political meaning within a burrito. The entire conservative movement spent all day yesterday arguing about burritos, and this was all Andrew Colvett's fault. Our pal Andrew over there at the Charlie Kirk Show in TPUSA, it's all his fault. But it's not really all his fault. He just touched on an issue, a seemingly trivial little point that really got to the heart of a lot of the rank, or a lot of the divide on the American right between the neocons and the libertarians and the traditionalists and the populists.
Some of the same fissures you saw in the Never Trump movement versus Trump in 2016 Some of the same fissures you've been seeing going all the way back to the founding of the post-war conservative movement with William F. Buckley Jr. and Russell Kirk. What did Andrew say? He is in trouble, boy. Andrew writes, One of our TPUSA college students gave me his take on affordability. Quote, a burrito shouldn't cost $20. Yeah, a lot of this is hangover from COVID and Biden era inflation, but the lived experience is the same. It just feels like basic things cost too much. Okay, simple point. There you have it. But some conservatives did not like this, including my pal, Joel Berry, representing a little bit more of the libertarian view, a little bit more of the neocon view. He posts, last night, my wife made burritos for our family of eight, and it cost less than $20 total for everyone. I'm beginning to think the affordability crisis is really an I don't know how to cook crisis.
By the time Joel weighed in, everybody got going. You had my pals here at DW. Matt Walsh weighs in. He says, I can't make burritos for my family of eight for $20. No way. Groceries are way too expensive. Ben Shapiro weighs in. He says, if you're paying $20 for a burrito, you're doing life wrong. We have Mark Thiessen, the speechwriter for George W. Bush. He weighed in. He said, it's ludicrous to spend $20 for a burrito. The Vice President, JD. Vance, weighed in. He said, he actually made a kind of a joke about Mark. He said, he said, you know, Mark, it doesn't look like you've ever missed a burrito in your life. And it just, it only got more explosive from there. Everybody was piling on, the post liberals, the liberals, the classical liberals, the traditionalists, the everybody. So Rabahmari was what everybody was weighing in. Okay. And I will tell you what the debate is about. Eventually I held back, though I will give my opinion on burritos. I held back for a little bit just to get the view of the conservative movement. Because I think a lot of times people within their own conservative factions, what they want to do is they want to say the other guys are not really conservative. This was the hallmark of the Never Trump movement. They say Trump isn't a true conservative. You're seeing this play out now. There's a kind of op going on against Catholics in particular. A lot of the discourse around common good conservatism, post liberalism is really a knock on Catholics, but it shouldn't be because a lot of the arguments that the post liberals or whoever else are making are really arguments that just go all the way back to antiquity, from Aristotle and Cicero up through St. Thomas Aquinas, up through the founding fathers who are writing about the common good. And it's just become this major, major flashpoint. So someone asked, they said, why are all the conservatives at a time when we have a mass migration into this country, another foreign war has kicked off, economic difficulty, why are we all talking about burritos? And I will tell you why.