7: The Seven Pillars of Trumpism
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🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisors Tara Setmayer and Stuart Stevens to discuss Sen. Ron Johnson's recent peddling of conspiracy theories during the Senate's first Capitol security hearing, Sen. Mitch McConnell's resistance to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposal of a 9/11-style commission to study the January 6th insurrection, and the latest from CPAC 2021. But first, the panel breaks down "The Seven Pillars of Trumpism" and applies the pillars to the conversation that follows.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today I'm joined by Lincoln Project |
| 0:13.8 | Senior Advisor and host of LPTV's The Breakdown, Tara Setmare. Tara, how are you? |
| 0:19.6 | I'm doing wonderful Reed, thank you. I'm also joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor, |
| 0:24.1 | Stuart Stevens. Stuart, good to have you here. You bet, Reed, great to be here, man. |
| 0:28.4 | Today we're going to talk about the investigation into the January 6th insurrection, |
| 0:32.9 | and we'll probably get to a little QPAC 2021. But before we get to that, |
| 0:37.5 | America's entering a new political epoch. You know, I think now that we're through |
| 0:41.6 | Trump's second impeachment, we're now getting into the rhythm of what will likely carry |
| 0:46.4 | American politics between now in November of 2022. Biden's first midterm election. |
| 0:52.4 | And so I think it's time for us to sort of redefine what it is the Lincoln Project is doing, |
| 0:57.2 | and I think one way I'd like to start with that is bringing up something that Steve Schmidt, |
| 1:01.1 | one of our co-founders, formulated on his Twitter feed back in January, about just what the pillars |
| 1:07.1 | of Trump is, and I want to talk a little bit about that and get your sense of that, I think we'll |
| 1:10.9 | talk a lot more about it as we go forward. But here's what Steve said. These are the seven things |
| 1:15.8 | that make up Trumpism. One is the dear leader, which obviously is Trump. Two is the propagandists, |
| 1:22.9 | the Fox News, O&N, Breitbart, Epic Times. Three are the financiers. The Steve Schwarzman's of |
| 1:29.6 | the world, the Richard U lines of the world, Sheldon Adelson, who recently passed away. |
| 1:34.4 | The cynical elite and the complicit cowards. That would be folks like Josh Hawley, Tom Cotton, |
| 1:41.3 | Ted Cruz in the first, and then the second would be the Republican senators and members of the |
| 1:46.8 | House who know better, but just sit quietly. Number five are the fascist thugs. I think a lot of |
| 1:51.8 | them were on display on January 6th. We've seen the proud boys. We've seen any number of folks going |
| 1:56.4 | back all the way to Charlottesville. Violence is a core piece, I think of Trumpism or the threat of it. |
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