#1488 Seeking Approval from the GOP Fringe is Making Them Mainstream
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 May 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Air Date 5/7/2022
Today we take a look at the jockeying for position that is happening among GOP politicians, both incumbents and hopefuls, in this murky Trump/post-Trump political era in which the path to victory for Republicans is to support Trump unquestioningly while also keeping an eye on the long game for which one should attempt to out-Trump Trump to gain the support of his cultish masses.
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Description: Against a black background, an illustration of Donald Trump’s head, and one hand pointing straight ahead, hovers over the shape of the United States filled in with the American flag. Three large, illustrated coronavirus molecules float out in front of Trump, each one encompassing the image of a Republican politician. Smallest to largest: J.D. Vance (Senate nominee in Ohio), Marjorie Taylor Green (Congressperson in Georgia), and Ron DeSanits (Governor of Florida).
Credit: Composite design by Amanda Hoffman. Image layers used include: “Trump and U.S. Image”, Images of politicians all by Gage Skidmore, Flickr and Wikimedia Commons: “J.D. Vance”, “Marjorie Taylor Greene", "Ron DeSanits” | Changes: Cropped and orange filter added
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the jockeying for position that is happening among GOP politicians, both |
| 0:12.5 | incumbents and hopefuls in this sort of murky Trump post-Trump political era in which |
| 0:20.1 | the path to victory for Republicans is to support Trump unquestioningly, obviously, while |
| 0:26.0 | also keeping an eye on the long game for which one may want to attempt to out-Trump Trump |
| 0:32.6 | to gain the support of his cultish masses. |
| 0:36.5 | To explain all this, we have clips today from the Rachel Maddo show, Skull Duggery, the |
| 0:41.5 | Majority Report, some more news, and the takeaway with an additional members only clip from |
| 0:47.9 | the Bullwark. |
| 0:55.2 | And we start tonight in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where this happened last week. |
| 0:59.6 | Just see if you can figure out what is going on here. |
| 1:02.6 | Oh yeah, where's Gavaya? |
| 1:09.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:13.4 | You're welcome. |
| 1:16.6 | Bless you. |
| 1:17.6 | Wow, how powerful is that? |
| 1:20.4 | Oh my gosh, our next governor. |
| 1:24.1 | Yes, that man in the center, the man receiving the giant sword. |
| 1:34.2 | That was Pennsylvania State Senator and Republican candidate for governor, Doug Masteriano. |
| 1:39.3 | The man dressed in multiple American flags and the woman to his left are the organizers |
| 1:43.6 | of this event in Gettysburg last week, and they are gifting Masteriano what they call |
| 1:48.4 | a David sword. |
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