99: The Inmates are Taking Over the Asylum with Arieh Kovler
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Writer and Political Analyst Arieh Kovler to discuss his unique perspective on the U.S. political landscape from his home country of Israel, if a coalition government could be a path forward for our country, and unique political strategies to consider for the upcoming midterm elections. Plus, reflections on January 6th and what contributed to Arieh’s now-viral pre-insurrection prediction. To learn more from Arieh, be sure to subscribe to his digital newsletter, “The Hat Tip” at arieh.substack.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaillan. Today, I'm joined by |
| 0:13.4 | writer and political analyst, Arya Kovlin. Arya is the founder of the Hat Tip, a digital |
| 0:18.9 | newsletter which provides reports, analysis, and productions about current affairs, especially |
| 0:23.8 | in the U.S. the UK, in Israel. He's joining us today from Jerusalem. Arya, welcome to the |
| 0:29.3 | show. Thanks for having me. So today, I want to talk about how you observe the United States |
| 0:34.7 | from your perch in Israel, as well as how you see the political landscape here in the U.S. |
| 0:40.2 | unfolding over the next year and beyond. But first, I want to talk about January 6, 2021, |
| 0:44.8 | a year ago. So reflecting back on that day, you put out a tweet that's gone viral as we |
| 0:50.7 | talked about when we were together last week, that you predicted what would happen with |
| 0:55.1 | pretty scary accuracy. Here's what you tweet. On January 6, armed, trumpest militias will |
| 1:01.0 | be rallying in DC at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the capital |
| 1:06.0 | after it certifies Joe Biden's woman. I don't think this has sunk in yet. I got to be honest |
| 1:10.8 | with you, Arya. I still don't think it's sunk in even a year later. So walk through for |
| 1:14.9 | the listeners a little bit how you came to this conclusion one and then two after it actually |
| 1:20.1 | happened, I don't think you probably took any sort of pride in being right, right? We are |
| 1:23.7 | often right for bad things happening. But what was your sense of it going in and why you thought |
| 1:28.1 | this was a possibility? I mean, you really have to zoom back five years to 2015, 2016, the beginning |
| 1:36.0 | of the Republican presidential nomination. And you see the strange phenomenon in parts of the |
| 1:42.8 | internet in the chance in particular, you know, these kind of more underground sites and then |
| 1:47.7 | bleeding through into reddit as well that had latched onto Donald Trump semi-ironically. I think |
| 1:54.7 | some of it was sort of anti-hillary stuff and it seemed like, you know, Donald Trump was the anti-hillary. |
| 2:00.0 | Some of these are people who were maybe conflicted between what's the most out there candidate I |
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