Executive editor Jim Antle brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine in the show Inside Scoop. Each episode features exclusive insight from the article authors and expert analysis.
Antle starts the show by talking about the significance of the peace talks in the Middle East and how President Donald Trump is already thinking about next steps.
“It’s this next phase that is going to be more challenging than ever because it deals with the political future of Gaza,” Antle said. “What we’ve seen so far is very promising, but obviously we’ve had a lot of disappointments diplomatically before.”
Antle said that if peace holds in these countries, the image of Secretary of State Marco Rubio interrupting President Donald Trump in a meeting will become iconic.
“This will be an iconic image that will go down in history alongside other similar events, such as when President Bush learned for the first time that the United States had been attacked on 9/11 when he was visiting a schoolhouse,” Antle said. “Hopefully, this, given that it’s much better news, will be an even more historically significant event.”
Next up in the show, Restoring America, launched four years ago by the Washington Examiner, aims not only to address the nation’s challenges but also to promote solutions. Restoring America editor Jeremiah Poff joins Antle to discuss the shift in public sentiment and a rise in optimism for the trajectory of the country.
“When we launched this project four years ago, the country was in a very different place, culturally, economically, politically,” Poff said. “The Biden administration was in power. You had the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which went horribly wrong. You had inflation going through the roof. Wokeness was at its peak. Mask mandates were still in place over COVID, and people were getting fired for not getting the vaccine. So now things are a lot different, right? Practically everything that I just recounted has, in a certain sense, almost been forgotten.”
“Trump is in office now, you’ve got a much higher rate of people who say the country’s on the right track. You can see that there’s a sense among the American public that there’s something brewing that makes them feel optimistic.”
Poff highlighted the decline of wokeness and the Democratic Party’s evolving stance on issues such as immigration and equality as a reason for such noticeable cultural and political changes.
“The retreat of wokeness is, I think, where this is most obvious,” Poff said. “I think people were sick and tired of being told that they were racist at their corporate diversity trainings. They were sick and tired of being told that if they didn’t post a black square on Instagram that they were somehow racist. Or that if they objected to the fact that kids in school were looking at and were being given books with pornography in it that they were somehow homophobic. They culturally said, ‘We’re done with this. We’re done being lectured. We’re done being pushed around.’”
Poff cautioned that while there is progress, future political cycles could reverse these gains.
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