The Bulwark Podcast
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We found 10 episodes of The Bulwark Podcast with the tag “conspiracies”.
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Tim Alberta: The Fringe Has Merged with the Mainstream
January 12th, 2022 | 40 mins 51 secs
2020, anti-vaxxers, biden, conspiracies, democracy, desantis, fauci, fringe, georgia, gop, oan, peter meijer, primary season, rand paul, trump, vaccines, voters, voting rights
With all the manic, hyperbolic nonsense about the election and vaccines, the fringe is no longer visible. The Atlantic's Tim Alberta joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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January 6 Was Built on Years of Lies and Propaganda
January 6th, 2022 | 36 mins 42 secs
biden, conspiracies, conspiracy, democracy, gop, impeachment, insurrection, jan 6, newt gingrich, obama, republican party, richard nixon, trump, us capitol, watergate
Conspiracy theories are at the core of Donald Trump, and the Republican Party still took him in. The surprise is that we are surprised. The New Yorker's Susan Glasser and Princeton's Julian Zelizer join Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Trump's Dereliction of Duty on Covid
December 23rd, 2021 | 43 mins 2 secs
2020, authoritarianism, biden administration, child tax credit, churchill, conspiracies, covid deaths, d-day, deborah birx, dunkirk, fda, foreign policy, house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, jim mattis, john bolton, john kelly, putin, rapid tests, russia, trump adminisration, ukraine, wwii
The Trump administration's malfeasance in responding to Covid demands a 9/11 commission-style investigation. Plus, Biden's 2020 victory was more Dunkirk, and less D-Day. Churchill fan Bill Kristol joins guest host JVL on today's episode.
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Will Saletan on the Culture Wars Turned Upside Down
May 24th, 2021 | 47 mins 50 secs
conspiracies, culture war, democrats, israel, january 6 commission, liz cheney, republicans, stop the steal lie, voter suppression
On today’s Bulwark podcast, Will Saletan joins Charlie Sykes to discuss America’s nation of victims, and how the two parties have switched culture war strategy, seemingly turning it upside down.
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Tim Miller on the GOP's No Good, Awful January
January 29th, 2021 | 50 mins 53 secs
cancel culture, conspiracies, donald trump, elections, expulsion, frazzledrip, gop, house, joe biden, kevin mccarthy, marjorie taylor greene, radicalization, speaker
On today's Bulwark Podcast, Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes to discuss the GOP's continuing fealty to Trump, their insurrection amnesia, and Marjorie Taylor Greene and "Frazzledrip."
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Tom Nichols on Shaming the Fanatics
November 27th, 2020 | 57 mins 58 secs
black friday, conspiracies, cynicism, elites, flying, gop, populism, senate gop, shaming, thanksgiving, trump voters
On today’s Bulwark Podcast, Tom Nichols joins Charlie Sykes to discuss Black Friday, flying, why we should start shaming the bad faith actors on the Trumpian right, and how elite educated GOP officials cynically dumb themselves down to fleece the masses.
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Benjamin Wittes on the High Water Mark of Delusion
November 13th, 2020 | 46 mins 58 secs
conspiracies, democracy, denial, donald trump, elections, joe biden, litigation, rule of law, samuel alito, supreme court
On today’s Bulwark Podcast, Benjamin Wittes joins Charlie Sykes to discuss his recent piece about the difficulty of overturning an election, why we should be wary of turning justices into celebrities (and why they shouldn’t become pundits), and why we’re at the high water mark of MAGA delusion.
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Bill Kristol on Late Stage Trumpism
October 16th, 2020 | 46 mins 45 secs
ben sasse, biden, bin laden, conspiracies, debate, gop, navy seals, q anon, rupert murdoch, town hall, trump, trumpism, voter suppression
On today's Bulwark Podcast, Bill Kristol joins Charlie Sykes to break down the dueling town halls, how some on the right are looking for the exits of Trumpism, and how actively suppressing the vote for the GOP is likely to backfire.
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Flooding the Zone in an Era of Chaff
May 18th, 2020 | 54 mins 54 secs
2020, brad parscale, conspiracies, coronavirus, covid-19, death star, igs, inspectors general, justin amash, lying, memes, microtargeting, mike pompeo, performative behavior, ron johnson, space force, tara reade, trolling
On today's Bulwark Podcast, Jonathan V. Last and Jim Swift join host Charlie Sykes to discuss the GOP's disregard for Inspectors General, Justin Amash, Brad Parscale's death star, conspiracies and policy outcomes, and the performative nature of signalling about COVID-19.
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Bill Kristol on Whistleblowers, Conspiracies, and Weaponizing Government
May 15th, 2020 | 47 mins 22 secs
2020, chris wray, congress, conspiracies, coronavirus, covid-19, donald trump, dr. bright, gop, n95 masks, obamagate, pandemic, sports, stimulus, weaponizing government, whistleblower
On today's Bulwark Podcast, Bill Kristol joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss Dr. Bright's whistleblower testimony, the role of conspiracies like "Obamagate" in Trump's 2020 campaign, COVID-19, Trump's mismanagement of the response, and the latest attempt by Congress to address it.