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The Bulwark Podcast

Bret Stephens: Pray Kamala Wins

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Trump is corrosive to the soul of our democracy. He's a bigot, an ogre, and an isolationist. And for all the Reagan Republicans on the fence: If Trump gets back in, America won't have a healthy conservative movement again for generations. Plus, Kamala on Israel, and Elon's private foreign policy with Putin—he's working against our national security while helping himself to the treasury of the United States.

Bret Stephens joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

show notes:

Tim's playlist
Bret's 2018 piece on Musk being the Trump of Silicon Valley

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Hello and welcome to the Board Podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller in a couple minutes. I'm going to have Brett Stevens for you

0:36.6

We're going to have an exchange about why he's voting for Kamla Harris kicking and screaming and we'll talk about Elon Musk having phone calls

0:45.1

with Putin apparently and coordinating with she like that's not at all

0:48.8

concerning but before we do that as I mentioned, I want to revise and extend maybe the remarks

0:54.8

that Ezra Klein made on his podcast earlier this week.

0:58.5

He had this monologue that I thought was an important attempt to, one, explain why the age issue isn't sticking with Trump

1:05.4

and two come up with an alternative more precise explanation that might help

1:10.4

wavering people understand what makes him so uniquely dangerous.

1:14.5

So I'm about to sum up what he said here, but if you want to go listen to it, his podcast is

1:19.7

what's wrong with Trump, and then you can come right on back.

1:22.4

But to distill it down.

1:24.0

Ezra explains that it is an age or cognitive decline

1:28.0

in a vacuum that people notice with Trump,

1:31.0

like people were noticing with Biden. It's a specific character trait which he calls disinhibited and that

1:38.8

disinhibition is both his great strength and his fatal flaw.

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