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The Bulwark Podcast

Bill Kristol: March to Dictatorship

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Trump and his people have used the summer months to up the despot game—sending armed troops into the streets, taking over the police in D.C., and promising to export the same tactics to even more blue cities. And the attempted deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda shows the lengths the administration will go for not submitting to its coercion. At the same time, Vance sounds downright Orwellian on the John Bolton matter, while the White House eyes other major corporations to extort. Plus, Wes Moore punches back, the injustice of the trans military ban, and the emerging signs of a broad Democratic coalition. Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

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1:14.1

Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

1:15.6

I'm your host Tim Miller.

1:17.0

It is Monday.

1:22.2

So I've got editor-at-large Bill Crystal back from a very non-vacation vacation.

1:25.3

You know, people do vacations differently in the summer.

1:29.2

Myself, JVL, others decided to check out from the news altogether.

1:32.3

Bill Crystal was texting me more than ever last week,

1:33.4

Quah is with his grandchildren.

1:35.8

So maybe that's a comment on the grandchildren?

1:36.6

Maybe not.

1:36.9

I don't know. No, no comment on the grandchildren.

1:39.2

I have to have to explicitly and emphatically.

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