1073: Secret Podcast: Republicans Are Walking Into a Buzzsaw

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

JVL and Sarah Longwell discuss a bizarre week where markets surge amid global chaos, Trump feuds with his own allies, and confusion over Iran keeps escalating. They also break down a blowout Democratic win, surging fundraising, and what it all signals for the midterms—plus a growing fight inside the party over Israel and its future direction.

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0:03.1	Calling UK Wildlife.
0:04.7	No, call my wife.
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0:30.1	Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my best friend, Sarah Longwell, publisher of the bulwark.
0:36.0	And it's spring, you can tell because I'm not wearing my spring and summer shirt. Which is the same brand. It's the same brand. Oh, it's a different brand from the winter shirt. Totally different brand. I mean, it's super different. This is one of the things you and I have in common where we basically find a thing that we like and we just buy seven of them in different
0:55.9	colors. Although in your case, you do it the same color. Like people think you have one shirt,
0:59.9	but you actually have the same shirt seven times. Like Steve Jobs. No, I have it in different
1:04.3	colors. Now, what I do is actually with the, so for the summer shirt, they're all different
1:09.1	colors. Yeah. For the winter shirt, they are winter and fall shirt, which is a long sleeve tea, I have like eight of those in like three different colors.
1:20.1	And so they're, you know, I have like two or three of each color.
1:23.2	Do you know what I miss?
1:24.3	I miss the days of the pandemic when you and I did these in our DJs before we're on video.
1:28.1	Before we're on video. And I could just see so much of your flesh. It was everywhere. Basically doing them shirtless. I was like the big Lobowski. It was, uh, those were the day. We could get away with a lot before video. I could be wearing my glasses instead of contacts. It was, yeah, it's good times.
1:45.6	Good times.
1:46.6	You know what else's good times.
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