Beschloss & Meacham: No One Should Be Surprised

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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John is joined by America’s best-known presidential historians, Michael Beschloss and Jon Meacham, to discuss the first two weeks of the transition to Donald Trump’s second term. Beschloss and Meacham assess the most head-spinning of Trump’s initial appointments and their prospects for confirmation; why the sense of shock these picks have elicited, even among Republicans, is ludicrous on its face; the role of Steve Bannon as the intellectual architect of Trump’s radical governing agenda and its central goal of what Bannon calls the “deconstruction of the administrative state;” and why it’s safe to assume that what we’re seeing now is what the next four years will look like. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.6	Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey Joint,
1:06.9	featuring fresh, topical and candy conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power
1:10.7	and influence in America,
1:11.8	shaping our politics and culture, as well as those who chronicle and contextualize their exploits from best-in-class reporters to hallowed historians,
1:20.1	two of the most esteemed and celebrated of which we have with us today, Michael Beschloss and John Meacham.
1:26.9	For countless Americans, the name Beschloss is synonymous with the phrase presidential historian,
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