The Bulwark Podcast
Smart, Conservative, Never Tribal
We found 10 episodes of The Bulwark Podcast with the tag “covid”.
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Ruy Teixeira: What Would the Working Class Say?
January 25th, 2022 | 43 mins
' elections, 'back to normal, biden, covid, crime, cultural issues, defund the police, democracy, democratic party, economy, free college, highly educated, inflation, latinx, left, left-wing, midterms, nonwhite voters, policing, professional class, progressives, pronouns, republicans, student loans, voter turnout, working class
Increased turnout and more nonwhite voters don't give Democrats the edge. To win, they have to remember the mantra: What Would the Working Class Say? Ruy Teixeira joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Josh Barro: Obsessing Over Democracy Won't Save It
January 17th, 2022 | 41 mins 41 secs
2024, autos, cars, colorado, consumer demand, covid, delta, desantis, economy, elizabeth warren, goods and services, inflation, jared polis, marriage, mask mandates, media, new york times, npr, omicron, pharmaceuticals, race-based preferential covid treatments, rapid tests, same-sex marriage, supply chain, tariffs, trump
For the Democrats to win, they need to focus on what normal people think about — which is NOT Jan. 6 and the potential end of democracy. They want Covid shut down and the economy opened. Josh Barro joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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David French: Biden’s Divisive Speech
January 14th, 2022 | 51 mins 3 secs
anti-anti-racism, anti-racism, ballot access, ballot counting, biden, cms, coup, covid, doj, georgia, great replacement theory, immigration, insurrection, jefferson davis, kamala harris, kavanaugh, large employers, oath keepers, osha, presidency, race, racial debates, scotus, sedition, seditious conspiracy, stewart rhodes, tucker carlson, vaccine mandates, voting rights
The crisis of democracy is in the counting, not the casting, of votes. The Dispatch's David French joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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We're Not All Crying Karens
December 30th, 2021 | 54 mins 15 secs
afghanistan, biden, bill clinton, boston globe, carter, covid, democracy, dershowitz, elections, epstein, foreign policy, julie k brown, jury trials, masks, miami herald, midterms, national review, refugees, regional papers, republicans, rich lowry, soviet union, trump, vaccinations. ghislaine maxwell, voter registration drives
A panel of Bulwark favorites share their predictions (AKA warnings) for 2022. They also take time to give a shout-out to the people who aren't shouting — the people on the ground helping others and working to save democracy. Bill Kristol, Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and JVL join guest host Mona Charen on today's episode.
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Democrats Need a Plan to Save Democracy in 2024
December 21st, 2021 | 58 mins 8 secs
2024, abortion, bbb, biden, bill clinton, constitution, covid, democracy, democratic leadership council, democrats, georgia, jimmy carter, manchin, pandemic, public health, reconciliation, republicans, rigged elections, roe v wade, sam nunn, southern democrats, stacey abrams, state legislators, supreme court, swing voters, west virginia, white house, women voters
The ultimate survival of American democracy is going to come down to the Democrats figuring out how to defeat the party that wants to overturn it. Plus, it's Joe Manchin's way or the highway. New York magazine's Ed Kilgore joins guest host JVL on today's episode.
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Manchin Puts Coal in the Democrats' Stockings
December 20th, 2021 | 39 mins 22 secs
adam kinzinger, bbb, biden, build back better, child tax credit, congress, covid, crime, democrats, fox news, infrastructure, jan. 6 committee, liz cheney, lock her up, manchin, messaging, official proceeding, omicron, pelosi, rapid tests, republicans, trump, us code 1512, west virginia
Democrats are furious with Manchin, but they still need him to pass a voting rights bill. Plus, while Biden readies for his big Covid speech, the man who brought us "lock her up" sounds nervous about the Jan. 6 committee. Mona Charen joins guest host Sarah Longwell on today's episode.
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Covid Should Be the Democrats' Culture War
December 17th, 2021 | 1 hr 18 mins
arctic monkeys, biden, breitbart, brexit, chaise longue, college campuses, coup, covid, cpac, democracy, gen z, gender, insurrection, jared polis, khive, left, masks, mckinsey, millennials, owning the libs, polling, rickshaw stop, san francisco, sexuality, snapchat, steve bannon, student loans, vaccine, wet leg, young voters
With Gen Z really not that into Biden, and median voters tuning out politics, Biden definitely needs a new message: Blame the GOP for Covid dragging on. Snapchat's Peter Hamby joins guest host Tim Miller on today's episode.
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The Next Level Takeover!
December 16th, 2021 | 55 mins 39 secs
ari fleischer, ben shapiro, bob woodward, brian kilmeade, conservatives, covid, fox news, insurrection, jake sherman, journalists, laura ingraham, masks chris cuomo, media bias, text messages nmark meadows, truth and lies, vaccines, white house
Sarah, Tim, and JVL sit in for Charlie. Trump knows his supporters better than anyone around him. He knew they'd be fine with an insurrection.
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Tim Miller: This Is Madness
December 10th, 2021 | 53 mins 37 secs
2020, all i want for christmas, bibi, bible, black lives matter, christ christie, covid, debate, delaware, democracy, dopesick, dr. oz, dupont, elliot page, jussie smollett, kissinger, lafayette square, mark meadows, netanyahu, new york city, noncitizens, pennsylvania, photo-op, power point, protesters, racial justice, republicans, sackler, schultz, senate, theranos, trump, voting rights
Republicans are siding with Putin over NATO, top candidates are flocking to Bannon's podcast, and New Yorkers are handing the GOP a Christmas gift by giving noncitizens the right to vote. Tim Miller joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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David Frum: Big Macs, Russia, and Afghanistan
December 6th, 2021 | 46 mins 14 secs
afghanistan, anti-vax, biden administration, big mac, bob dole, chocolate shake, comey, corey lewandowski, corruption, covid, election, filet-o-fish, hacking, healthy eating, hospital, jeff sessions, mark levin, mark meadows, mcdonald's, michael flynn, michelle obama, obesity, penn & teller, republican party, russia, russian troops, sam nunberg, sanctions, sarah palin, south carolina, starvation, taliban, trump, trumpism, ukraine, wokeism
The build-up of Russian troops on the border is alarming. Afghanistan is facing mass starvation. Meanwhile, Trump country is not only anti-vax, it's pro-obesity. Get fat to own the libs. David Frum joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.