The Bulwark Podcast
Smart, Conservative, Never Tribal
We found 10 episodes of The Bulwark Podcast with the tag “trump”.
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Will Saletan: We Are Too Politically Segregated
January 31st, 2022 | 46 mins 37 secs
bennie thompson, black woman, echo chamber, fani willis, fulton county, georgi, integration, jan. 6, judge j. michelle childs, karl racine, letitia james, lindsey graham, pardons, prosecutors, rally, scotus, social media, south carolina, sununu, supreme court, susan collins, texas, tribalism, trump
Don't only talk to people you agree with politically. Break free from the echo chamber, and help cure our tribalism. Will Saletan officially joins The Bulwark — and Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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A.B. Stoddard: MAGA in Disarray
January 28th, 2022 | 41 mins 34 secs
anti-vax, bbb, biden, black woman, campaign promise, cawthorn, covid derangement syndrome, democratic leadership, j.d. vance, kingmaker, manchin, morgan ortagus, nancy pelosi, nikki haley, nominee, republicans, robby starbuck, sanders, schumer, scotus pick, stephen breyer, supreme court, trump, vaccines, warren
Trump's kingmaking keeps hitting bumps in the road, and the GOP is helping to spread Covid as an electoral strategy. Plus, why does Schumer's sloppy leadership get so little notice? A.B. Stoddard joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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David Priess: Beware of Russian Trolls
January 26th, 2022 | 48 mins 45 secs
alex berenson, biden, cia, covert action, disinformation, dod, election, electors, fox, gateway pundit, germany, intelligence, italy, j.d.vance, kiev, moscow, natural gas, nuclear power, propaganda, putin, qatar, rfk jr., russia, russian state tv, trump, ukraine, vaccines, vienna, voting machines, wisconsin, yale
Parts of Ukraine are physically closer to — and more culturally aligned with — Central and Western Europe than they are to Russia. Lawfare's David Priess joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Bill Kristol: The Dysfunction Is a Pre-Existing Condition
January 24th, 2022 | 43 mins 16 secs
anti-vax rally, bannon, barr, biden, border, democracy, desantis, draft findings, esper, gingrich, impeach, jan. 6, jeffrey clark, jr. anne frank, kash patel, midterms, partisanship, podcast, presidential, rfk, senate, the holocaust, trump, voting machines, weekly standard, youngkin
Newt Gingrich's recklessness with partisanship was a precursor of where we are today, and now Trump's followers, like Steve Bannon and Ron DeSantis, are trying to one-up Trump. Bill Kristol joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Will Saletan: The Coalition of the Sane
January 19th, 2022 | 45 mins 7 secs
authoritarian, biden, bully pulpit, defund the police, election 2020, fox news, georgia, hawley, ideological, jan. 6, law & order, manchin, maya angelou, nato, propaganda, republicans, russia, sinema, trump, tucker carlson, ukraine, vaccines, violence, virus, voting rights
America needs a coalition that crosses party and ideological lines — to counter the authoritarian menace inside the Republican Party, and GOP leaders who lie about the election and the virus. Will Saletan tells Charlie Sykes why he's joining the fight at The Bulwark.
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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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Adam Kinzinger: Jan 6 Primetime Hearings Will Be Must-See TV
January 13th, 2022 | 40 mins 16 secs
ar-15, biden, cheney, civil war, conceal carry, congressional investigations, doj, election, evan mcmullin, fbi, gingrich, grifters, gun owners, insurrection, jan 6 committee, jim jordan, kenosha, lock her up, media, mike rounds, nra, palin, rand paul, ray epps, tea party, ted cruz, thieves, trump, voting rights
The behind-the-scenes evidence presented during the upcoming primetime Jan 6 committee hearings will be "compelling" and "shocking," and will be directed to an audience who's going to go out and vote. Rep. Adam Kinzinger joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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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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Barbara Walter: Is America at Risk of a 21st Century Civil War?
January 11th, 2022 | 42 mins 59 secs
biden, bombings, bosnia, civil conflict, civil war, elections, jan. 6, milosevic, northern ireland, paramilitary, rural americans, terrorism, trump, violence, voters, white christians, yugoslavia
There have been more than 200 civil wars since WWII — and the conditions that triggered those conflicts are now present here in America. Author Barbara Walter joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.
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Tom Nichols: Time for a Grand Coalition
January 10th, 2022 | 52 mins 6 secs
american democracy, arkansas, asa hutchinson, biden, constitution, cult, democrats, jan. 6, mandela barnes, midterms, mike rounds, mobs, progressives, ron johnson, senate, south dakota, stalinist, the squad, trump, wisconsin
Sure, former Republicans in the democracy coalition bear some responsibility for where we are today — and Democrats do too. But the only thing that matters now is who's on the side of the Constitution, and who isn't. Tom Nichols joins Charlie Sykes on today's podcast.