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A Republican’s Journey Away From Trump

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Max Boot, columnist for the Washington Post and author of “Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left The Right,” about his journey since Donald Trump took office. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Since the election, we've created nearly six million new jobs, including more than half a million manufacturing jobs,

0:07.7

and nearly 700,000 new construction jobs.

0:11.9

Numbers that if I would have said this during the campaign, those people back there call them the Fakers, fake news media.

0:22.0

The Fakers would have said, he exaggerated, he exaggerated.

0:26.5

They are a bunch of Fakers, there's no question about it.

0:30.6

But you know, in six years, they're all going to be out of business, folks.

0:37.9

Well, we are in a constitutional crisis because of the administrations contempt for law.

0:43.4

They're refusal to obey the law, whether it's the refusal to hand over President's tax returns to the

0:48.4

chairman of ways and means when the law says they must do that.

0:52.3

You like records, this must be a record of attorney general being proposed for contempt within 100 days of taking more of this.

1:02.8

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. My guest today is Max Boot, whom I've never spoken to and I'll be honest, he kind of scares me.

1:11.7

And okay, it's not his name. I mean, Max Boot. Thanos definitely has a cousin named Max Boot.

1:20.8

But he's the good cousin. That's right. Max turns out to be, yeah, a measured former Republican with a stern voice,

1:27.6

but he has a flexible mind. And he's probably been the person most ideologically changed during Trump's presidency period.

1:35.6

The hallmark of a good mind would seem to be the willingness to change it.

1:39.3

And because of that, I'm very happy to learn from Max Boot. Max Boot, welcome to Trumpcast.

1:45.4

Thanks for having me on.

1:46.7

When I was at Talk magazine, Tina Brown wanted you to write because of your obvious merits, but also because she loved your name.

1:52.7

Everyone loves your name.

1:54.8

Well, I can't accept any credit for my name, obviously, but I have to acknowledge that my named my son, William Boot,

2:03.9

and contribute to the hero of scoop.

2:07.2

Oh, yes, exactly. Tell listeners what scoop is. I don't know if people read that anymore. Do they?

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