{"id":296632,"date":"2025-06-29T21:16:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-71-thick-skin-weak-stomach\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T21:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T21:16:37","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-71-thick-skin-weak-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-ep-71-thick-skin-weak-stomach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: Ep. 71 &#8211; Thick Skin, Weak Stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Apr 2, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Timothy and David Gordon join the show to discuss their new book<br \/>\n<em>Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical<br \/>\nLeft.<\/em> It\u2019s a reverse-Alinskyan playbook for conservatives and<br \/>\nChristians who are sick of being outmaneuvered at every turn by the<br \/>\nforces seeking the destruction of the Christian faith and the<br \/>\nnatural foundations of the social order.<\/p>\n<p>The Gordon brothers want us to stop falling for the left\u2019s<br \/>\ntactics, which take advantage of the timidity, and false humility<br \/>\nof today\u2019s conservative Christians, and start turning the radicals\u2019<br \/>\nown tactics against them as much as possible within the bounds of<br \/>\nChristian morality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanbooks.com\/rules-for-retrogrades-forty-tactics-to-defeat-the-radical-left.html\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.tanbooks.com\/rules-for-retrogrades-forty-tactics-to-defeat-the-radical-left.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1:21] Remarks on the beginning of a dialogue<\/p>\n<p>[6:11] Egalitarianism as the beating heart of radical<br \/>\nleftism<\/p>\n<p>[9:17] What is a retrograde?<\/p>\n<p>[12:45] \u201cNo truth is \u2018off-limits\u2019\u201d: Don\u2019t censor your thoughts<br \/>\nfor fear of consequences or optics<\/p>\n<p>[21:05] Admission of sin\u2019s wickedness a prerequisite for<br \/>\nmercy<\/p>\n<p>[23:01] \u201cAlways be on offense\u201d: why a defensive position leads<br \/>\nto failure; it should fall to those who advocate wickedness to be<br \/>\non the defensive<\/p>\n<p>[28:21] \u201c<em>Risus est bellum<\/em>\u201d: The best response to an<br \/>\nabsurd or evil claim could be laughter or rebuke rather than<br \/>\ndignifying it with an argument<\/p>\n<p>[30:38] Virtue-signaling Christians who try to curry favor with<br \/>\nthe left by throwing retrogrades under the bus; mod-cons vs.<br \/>\nmilitant mods<\/p>\n<p>[33:32] Ways that leftist conditioning affects even staunch<br \/>\nconservatives<\/p>\n<p>[37:50] \u201cBe coarse but never crass\u201d\u2014have \u201cthick skin and a weak<br \/>\nstomach\u201d; how the hierarchy of virtues gives us moral perspective<br \/>\nin politics (civility is relatively low on the virtue totem<br \/>\npole)<\/p>\n<p>[45:23] The degree to which Alinsky\u2019s tactics may be used<br \/>\nagainst the left; the rules of swordsmanship vs. the ends for which<br \/>\nyou fight<\/p>\n<p>[50:57] Why prayer was not discussed in <em>Rules for<br \/>\nRetrogrades<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[55:38] \u201cFor radicals, the issue is never the real issue\u201d: ex.,<br \/>\npushing maternity leave is a pretext to normalize being a working<br \/>\nmother<\/p>\n<p>[59:46] The importance of the order in which the rules were<br \/>\narranged<\/p>\n<p>[1:01:34] \u201cThe root of cultural decay is feminism: end feminism<br \/>\nto end radicalism\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[1:07:00] Follow-up comments by Thomas on the importance of<br \/>\nprayer<\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. 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