And the Good evening. It's Wednesday, August 30th. Welcome to a new episode of

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The Republican presidential debate held last week in Milwaukee revealed some very sharp and serious divisions

within that party.

Ideological conflicts, not about ancillary issues,

but about fundamental ones.

We devoted several shows over the last week to examining those very vibrant

and often bitter disputes taking place within the GOP and the American Right generally,

splits that have been long brewing but that exploded into plain sight with the inability of

the Republican establishment to stop Donald Trump in 2016 despite using every

weapon that establishments have and that had become even more visible now with the failure of

the Republican establishment the seeming failure though increasingly desperate

attempts to wrestle that control back from Trump and restore traditional Republican establishment

orthodoxies. Now simultaneous with the emergence of these sharp

differences within the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, has become almost the exact opposite.

That party has virtually no internal differences of any meaningful kind.

Other than perhaps the post-9-11 Republican Party from maybe 2002 to 2004 I really don't think I've ever seen

in my lifetime.

One of the two political parties more bereft of internal debates, factional conflicts,

or ideological disputes in the Democratic Party of

2023.

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