Amanda Carpenter: Is Trump Depressed?

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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He lost, he's low on campaign cash, and he's juggling criminal court dates. Are the bad things he says about America a projection of how he feels about himself? Plus, Candace's crazy new crazy conspiracy, MAGA nuts in swing states, and the most alarming threat from a Trump 2.0. Amanda joins Tim for the weekend pod.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to do you know. Happy Friday.
0:25.0	Hello and welcome to the Bullock Podcast. I'm Tim Miller. I'm just delighted to have my friend and yours back on the pod writer and editor protect democracy
0:36.7	She might have been here at the bulwark for a little while
0:38.9	She's the co-authorize of a recent report called the authoritarian playbook for 2025 how an
0:43.9	authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to
0:47.6	protect it. I'm obviously talking about Amanda Carpenter. Hey girl.
0:51.0	Hey Tim I tried to pay respects to you.
0:55.1	It's not quite a pearl necklace.
0:56.6	It's kind of half and half, but I was like, I'm going to wear that for Tim.
0:59.8	I like that.
1:00.5	I appreciate it.
1:01.4	I'm just happy to see you.
1:02.3	I've missed you. And I'm actually, to see you I've missed you and I'm like this is going to be a nice little Friday we have some deep thoughts to get to
1:08.6	Among the reasons you're here besides my just burning desire to spend more time with you.
1:13.2	Well, as I received a piece of feedback from a listener who said that I am not scared enough
1:17.1	about the downfall of our democracy and that I need to be educated by Amanda about the scale of the threat.
1:23.8	And so I want to get into that.
1:25.3	I want to get into nerdy stuff, fusion voting,
1:27.8	and Project 2025 and the debate that you had
1:31.2	was some gnome for heritage.
1:32.6	I want to get to all of that.
1:33.7	But it's the weekend pond, so I kind of just,
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