Attack of the Mini-Trumps

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Will tomorrow’s primary elections in the GOP signal another turn in the party toward candidates who mimic Donald Trump’s attitudes and affect? That’s the question we focus on today, as well as the question of whether Democrats and liberals are falling prey to a temptation that will harm their efforts to get Trump—which is to embrace figures like Stormy Daniels and thereby normalize the president. Source

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0:00.0	Oh, for the best, expect the worst, some preach, and pay, some die of thirst.
0:14.9	The way of knowing which way it's going, oh for the best, expect the worst, oh for the best.
0:25.6	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine podcast today is Monday, May 7, 2018.
0:30.0	I am John Pudhord, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.2	The 77-year-old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,
0:37.1	property, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
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0:50.5	including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox.
0:53.6	11 times a year with me as always.
0:56.2	Abe Greenwald, our senior editor, hi Abe.
0:58.5	Hi John, Noah Rothman, our associate editor, hi Noah.
1:01.6	Hi John.
1:02.1	And senior writer, Sora Bavari.
1:03.8	Hi, sir.
1:04.4	Hello, John.
1:05.5	So we had a weird weekend full of Trump, Mueller, Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels,
1:16.0	and newly minted lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
1:18.9	You may remember on the last podcast, I laid out a theory
1:22.7	that there was a method in Rudy Giuliani's madness that he was laying out a new,
1:26.8	aggressive legal strategy, where Trump was basically going to admit
1:32.6	to having paid off Stormy Daniels.
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