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A Meditation on Conservatives Who Change Their Minds

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Windsor Mann (USA Today, The Week) about his penchant for epigrams, Neo-conservatism, more on the relationship between Republicans and Russia, Mitt Romney, Lindsey Graham, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's face it, this is a national security threat.

0:03.7

If Americans come to conclude

0:05.7

that the result of an election, any election,

0:08.4

is not true, that is, it is not really based

0:12.1

on how Americans voted.

0:14.8

Then that undercuts our democracy.

0:16.8

It undercuts our whole notion

0:18.6

that we live in a country of majority rule

0:21.1

and that we all get together, we vote,

0:23.0

and that's what we decide on it, that person,

0:25.2

and we get behind them.

0:27.0

So this really matters.

0:30.0

I'm seeing Russia and other countries

0:33.0

interfering in our elections.

0:35.0

The intelligence community has been very clear about it.

0:38.0

But the Trump recognizes that they're not worth

0:40.0

knowledge, they did interfere in 2016.

0:44.0

They, in fact, acquitted him, and now he has free reign.

0:48.0

I'm going to beat this man like a drum.

0:54.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:56.0

Virginia Heffernin, so Windsor Man.

0:59.0

Note the name, come on, Windsor Man.

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