Boris Johnson Is More Bill Clinton, Less Donald Trump (with David Frum)

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Boris Johnson is a charming and self-indulgent character, but fundamentally not sinister — he didn't attack the British constitutional order. Plus, the Fulton County investigation of Trump, and how Dobbs is like Prohibition. David Frum joins Charlie Sykes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.6	Welcome to the Bullwark Podcast.
0:39.3	I am Charlie Sykes.
0:40.5	I open my newsletter with a discussion of what's happening in Great Britain, where the
0:45.5	Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going to be resigning today.
0:48.9	Let me confess that the main reason that I led my newsletter with this was as an excuse
0:54.9	to include David Frum's tweet.
0:58.5	I just want to tell you that right up front.
1:00.7	Our guest today is David Frum, staff writer at The Atlantic.
1:03.1	So by the way, good morning, David.
1:04.8	Good morning, hello.
1:06.3	Because you had this fantastic tweet yesterday where you said, speaking of peaceful transitions
1:11.3	of power, whatever happens next for Boris Johnson, there was literally zero chance that
1:16.1	he will organize a mob to sack parliament or incite his supporters to try to hang the
1:21.7	air to the throne.
1:23.8	Yes.
1:24.8	What does that put things in perspective?
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