Big Bill, Big Win (ft. Eric Teetsel)

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The hosts are joined this week by Claremont's Vice President of Communications and Beck & Stone co-founder Andrew Beck to recount Vice President JD Vance’s speech at Claremont’s 2025 Statesmanship Award dinner, shining a light on the contradictions of liberals—wealthy, yet vehemently anti-billionaire; white, yet self-deprecating—and discussing the conservative mission to build and unify. Roiling also beneath the surface of the Left is an incendiary concoction of mental illness, confused gender ideology, and a propensity toward violence, most recently exposed in a series of attacks on ICE agents in Texas. Plus: Center for Renewing America CEO and Lincoln alumni Eric Teetsel drops in to discuss the passing of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, noting its successes and reactions to it from within and without the Right’s coalition—and joins the media recommendation wrap-up!

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Roundtable. I do think it is kind of a remarkable achievement
0:06.4	when you look at it and think about it. You're talking about a bill that brings together the
0:11.9	priorities of Jim Banks and Chip Roy and Lisa Murkowski. Yeah, that's remarkable. It's a motley crew.
0:22.1	It's first and foremost a testament, I think, to Donald Trump and to the recognition
0:28.0	that he is the center of political gravity and dictates the agenda.
0:34.3	And people can push and bob and weave and try to advance their own agendas within that context.
0:40.9	But at the end of the day, he's the leader.
0:42.9	He's going to get what he wants and he did.
0:45.2	And he got a lot of help from Mike Johnson and John Thune and others to get it there.
0:49.3	But they listen to him and they take direction from him.
0:52.0	And it's very reflective of him. And so far as it's the
0:55.8	priorities that he set out to achieve in this bill. Welcome, everyone once again to the Roundtable, the editors and publishers podcast.
1:35.1	At the American Mind at the Claremont Institute, I am your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute,
1:40.9	and publisher of the Claremont Review Books and The American Mind.
1:44.3	Spencer is out this week, having just hiked up Mount Whitney.
1:47.2	We can ask them all about it next week.
1:49.3	So I'm joined by managing editor Mike Sabo, who's back from his own vacation over the
1:53.7	fourth or the week of the fourth, and Andrew Beck, a new voice here on the podcast.
1:58.8	Many of you know Andrew from his work at Beckinstone,
2:01.3	where he's a founder and principal. He's also our VP of Communications on loan while we
2:07.7	revamp some of our comms and marketing in the coming year or so, have been doing it for a year.
2:13.2	Andrew's a man about town in D.C. and New York, those of you who've been out at events,
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