Hello and welcome in the Bullwark podcast.

I'm your host Tim Miller.

It is Monday.

So we are back with editor at-large Bill Crystal.

Bill's grandchildren suffered a devastating defeat over the weekend.

And we're going to save that for the end.

We'll do some life lessons.

It's important.

You know, if you have children or grandchildren have been disappointed recently,

there are things that can be learned from that.

And we'll save that from the end.

But we'll start with some positives.

The no Kings rallies were happening over the

weekend. I was in attendance at the New Orleans event. It looks like you were somewhere much

chillier in the Northeast. What were your takeaways? It was cold in Waltham, Massachusetts. I

should come to New Orleans the next one. I was in Boston for various other reasons and went to the

event with a couple of friends. Their families actually in Waltham, younger friends. It was good. It was great. I mean, it's a little different from McLean. Maclean, Virginia is ex-Republican-ish types, many of whom I know I've lived to so long. And also, you know, hey, I remember you from this McCain event or from the Bush administration or our weekly standard subscribers. Wolfham, which is a western suburb of Massachusetts, Grand Is there. It's a little past Cambridge and Belmont, all those places. It's more like, I used to hate you. Yeah, yeah, that was more of that. I can't believe we're on the same side here. 20 years ago, I was in this very place protesting against you. It was a little different

vibe, but everyone was friendly. And I was struck by just the, I mean, so this is a more lefty,

if you will, group, but they were all sensible so far as I could tell. There were a lot of American

flags. There was an attempt to keep on the basic message, but there was not those speeches. This was

a thousand people

or whatever, honking and, but very upbeat bands kind of marching around playing Woody Guthrie,

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