248: Politics is Downstream of Culture
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Trygve Olson to discuss the recent debt ceiling deal (and what it means for all parties involved), the GOP primary field and Donald Trump’s ever-increasing insanity, and how culture war issues continue to drive the Republican Party. Plus, a possible candidate for the best hole-in-the-wall bar in Wisconsin. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reid. Before we get started, I want to let you know about something exciting. |
| 0:04.9 | Today, the Lincoln Project is launching our Take Back the Flag Initiative. |
| 0:10.1 | For too long, too many Americans have been afraid or worried to fly the American flag |
| 0:15.8 | because they think it's associated with Trump or some sort of right-wing extremism. |
| 0:20.3 | Guys, it is not their flag. |
| 0:22.1 | It is not his flag. |
| 0:23.5 | It is our flag. |
| 0:25.1 | Please send us photos of you and Old Glory to info at lincolnproject.us and tell us why you are happy to fly the American flag. |
| 0:35.1 | And now, on with the show. |
| 0:44.6 | Thank you. fly the American flag. And now, on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today, I'm joined by |
| 0:50.2 | Tric Viels, Senior Advisor to Lincoln Project, and president of Viking Strategies, LLC, a Washington, D.C. based public affairs and political consulting firm. Today, he is coming to us from a great state of Wisconsin. Trickvi, welcome back. Thanks for having me on, Reed. It's good to be on. All right, man. Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks, and it's been a while since we've had you on. So let's start with a couple of things. One is, as of last night, as we're recording this, |
| 1:16.2 | the United States Senate passed the House's version of the debt ceiling deal. You know, |
| 1:21.8 | shortly, I assume it'll go to the president's desk for his signature. A lot of the MAGA Republicans |
| 1:27.3 | were certainly unhappy, so I want to |
| 1:29.5 | talk about that. A number of Democrats were pretty unhappy, too, with the various policy pieces. But |
| 1:34.3 | give us your sense of what this means for President Biden, what this means for Kevin McCarthy, |
| 1:40.4 | and what it means for politics in America. Well, I think first and foremost, I'm not sure |
| 1:45.1 | that we should be giving too many accolades to the United States Senate for doing their most basic |
| 1:50.1 | of jobs, right? Like, raising the debt ceiling and not screwing around with the reserve currency |
| 1:55.4 | status of the United States, one of the things that makes America great and exceptional |
| 1:59.9 | should just be regular |
| 2:01.7 | business. |
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