Blood Bath & Beyond
Politix
Politix
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:
* Donald Trump’s warning of “a bloodbath for the whole country” if he loses;
* The relative political value of exploiting Trump’s authoritarian appeals vs. his agenda of tax breaks for rich people and big entitlement cuts;
* The potential risk of attacking Trump in scattershot fashion, rather than homing in on his biggest vulnerabilities
Then, paid subscribers get a lengthier discussion of two potential pitfalls of resistance politics: First, does freaking out over Trump’s threats of violence come at a cost if it’s done in a way that conveys fear and weakness? Second, do liberals undermine their core values of reason and nuance by reading Trump’s provocations in the most menacing possible light? Is there any good way to make Trump accountable for his words without getting suckered into pedantic textual debates about whether his words were literal or figurative. If you’d like to hear us take a stab at those questions, upgrade to paid, and enjoy the whole episode!
Further reading:
* Matt admits it: The orange man is bad!
* Brian and AOC discuss the disconnect between Democrats’ democracy appeals and their lackluster approach to accountability politics.
* Trump runs to the safety of Breitbart to walk back his flirtation with Social Security and Medicare.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | He specifically looked in the camera and was like, |
| 0:02.8 | Donald Trump, don't kill this bill, work with me on it. |
| 0:05.7 | I agree that that particular line was I think a little bit off |
| 0:10.7 | and like what he should have said was like Lindsay Graham don't act like a |
| 0:15.6 | pussy and like come work with me on the immigration bill. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics |
| 0:26.5 | podcast in this episode Matt and I are going to talk about Trump's now |
| 0:29.7 | infamous bloodbath warning there's been a backlash to the bloodbath warning and now infamous Blood Bath Warning. |
| 0:32.6 | There's been a backlash to the Blood Bath Warning |
| 0:34.8 | and now a backlash to the Backlash to the Blood Bath Warning. |
| 0:38.6 | Matt and I come at the controversy |
| 0:39.8 | from different angles, which will hopefully illuminate it |
| 0:42.4 | in an interesting way. And then we're going to grapple with the |
| 0:45.2 | question of how liberals and Democrats should grapple with an opposition that plays these kind of |
| 0:51.7 | language games because they don't really think that the truth of the matter is relevant. |
| 0:56.0 | We hope you enjoy the conversation and if you like what you're hearing and want to listen to the whole episode, go to politics. |
| 1:02.0 | FM and upgrade your subscription. |
| 1:04.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Matthew Iglesias. This past weekend Donald Trump went to Ohio and |
| 1:15.8 | depending whom you ask he warned that either the auto industry or the whole country or maybe both |
| 1:22.2 | will be in for a quote-unquote bloodbath if he |
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