Bill Kristol: We Were Right To Be Alarmed

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Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The danger of Trump's nominees is that the main condition of employment—aside from being on Fox—is their fealty to him, and a willingness to go along with the ideological fervor of Stephen Miller, Russ Vought and JD Vance. Meanwhile, the math may not add up for Tulsi, Sarah McBride shows grace and dignity in response to Nancy Mace, and Trump goes weirdly quiet.

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the board podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. It's Thanksgiving week and it's Monday. So we've got our publications editor at large, Bill Crystal. How you doing, Bill? Fine, Tim. How are you? Happy Thanksgiving. And to you, are you staying in Virginia for Thanksgiving?
0:23.1	We are staying in Virginia. We're going to one of our daughter's houses,
0:26.2	having the whole family, plus various sort of in-laws and cousins.
0:30.1	So I think 27 people for Thanksgiving should be nice, of whom I think what?
0:33.7	That should be big.
0:34.5	Eight will be less than 11 years old. So it should be pleasantly chaotic.
0:40.0	Gotcha. Well, I'll be in West Virginia.
0:42.2	Whoa.
0:42.8	In the home of the union, but the town has a Confederate statue.
0:46.7	Is that true? In West Virginia, they familiar that?
0:48.9	The state exists because of the union, right?
0:51.9	I know. I know. And I'm telling you, but you have to honor your dead.
0:55.7	You got to honor your ward dead on the other side.
0:57.3	You got to honor the people that you killed.
0:58.6	All right.
0:59.1	We have a lot of cabinet news on Friday.
1:01.7	I did a little YouTube video over the weekend,
1:03.5	but we can go deeper.
1:04.5	Basically, the rest of the cabinet, Trump picked.
1:07.3	Over the weekend we also heard from some Republican senators
1:09.5	showing some maybe some signs of spine,
1:12.9	which you wrote about in the morning newsletter. I wanted to begin just with some big picture
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