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The Al Franken Podcast

59: Neo-Con Bill Kristol on How Trump Made Him Do Some Re-Thinking

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Kristol discusses disgust with today’s Republican Party

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Hey, everybody. We've gotten an interesting one today, you know, for a change. William Crystal is my guest.

1:14.9

William Crystal, the Neo-Connell? Yes. And I'll tell you why.

1:20.8

In some ways to me, Bill Crystal has been one of the most interesting, prominent never-trumper's.

1:29.9

Most of the others who you see or hear or read were political operatives. You know, the Lincoln Project guys, Michael Steele.

1:35.5

Bill Crystal comes from a much more academic, intellectual place, and I thought I tried to get some sense of not just how he came to an anti-Trump stance, which is not frankly that hard

1:42.7

to figure out, but how the establishment Republican Party's full

1:47.8

embrace of Trump and Trumpism has made him rethink some of his own past beliefs.

1:54.5

We recorded the conversation the day before the president's address before the joint

2:00.1

session of Congress on Wednesday, which I thought

2:02.7

was extraordinary, especially in its ambition. Basically, it's like Biden got his team together

2:08.2

right after the inaugural parade. He just walked into the White House, got everybody in the

2:14.1

Oval Office, and the president's behind his desk, and President Biden says,

2:19.4

you know what, everybody, why don't we just do everything we've always known we should do,

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