A Message From Me / A Mitch McConnell Deep Dive

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Resolute Square

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We begin this episode with a quick note of appreciation from Rick, to you and everyone who has supported in this fight. From there Rick sits down with New York Times bestselling author Michael Tackett to discuss his new book, The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party. Tackett unpacks McConnell's transformation from a pragmatic politician to a key architect of modern conservatism, his mastery of Senate rules, and his role in reshaping the judiciary. The conversation explores McConnell's relationship with Trump, his controversial post-January 6 decisions, and the enduring impact of his leadership. Michael's book, The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party, available now. Timestamps: (00:06:19) The Price of Power (00:12:32) Doing more with the minority than some can do with the majority (00:14:18) Curating his own caucus (00:17:03) Controlling Trump (00:27:13) The Senate post McConnell Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what that is.
0:05.4	An ice cold beer.
0:07.3	What's different?
0:09.9	It's Budweiser.
0:12.0	Fruit longer for a refreshing, smooth taste.
0:18.4	Like no other.
0:21.4	Cheers to that.
0:23.5	Budweiser, like no other.
0:25.8	Please drink responsibly.
0:27.0	For the facts, visit drinkaware.com.
0:31.2	Resolute Square.
0:34.2	Hey, everybody.
0:35.0	I'm recording this on Tuesday, the 26th, as the holiday approaches. I wanted to reply to a lot of folks who have been very, very kind about, you know, sending me emails and messages asking, like, when's the show coming back? When are you going back full time on all this stuff? You know, how are you? Are you okay? Guys, I'm good. I am. Would I prefer to a different outcome on
0:56.4	this election? You bet. Did I want to go write books and fly airplanes and raise grandchildren?
1:02.6	Of course I did. But, you know, the pace of the work that I do and that we did at the Lincoln
1:08.7	project this year, and a lot of folks in the pro-democracy space did, was brutal. It was absolutely brutal. We're talking 20-hour days.
1:18.2	I traveled about 140 days this year on airplanes. That is in the low-fund category. So I needed
1:26.3	a couple weeks to clear my head, to think about what the path forward is going to be, to rest, to sleep, to, you know, wake up in the morning and not immediately go, oh, fuck, I've got 18 phone calls to make.
1:39.0	But I'm very grateful at a really profound and personal level for the notes and the support
1:46.4	and the very kind words of folks out there who are listeners to the enemies list,
1:51.2	readers on my substack, followers of Lincoln, and folks who I think they could see the
1:56.6	exhaustion in me at the end of this race.
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