Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charrens indicated columnist and policy at the Bullwork, and I am joined by our regulars.

Damon Linker, who writes the sub-stack newsletter, Notes from the Middle Ground, Bill Galston

of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,

and Linda Chavez of the Niskanen Center.

Our special guest this week is Yasha Monk.

He has been a professor at Harvard and Johns Hopkins and his author most recently of the

identity trap a story of ideas and power in our time. Welcome one and all. We are gathered here to discuss New Hampshire and

other matters. Let's begin with the New Hampshire results and what it means.

As we speak, it's being reported anyway that the RNC

is drafting a statement declaring Trump the presumptive nominee before

Nicky Haley has even dropped out. So you know there he is that Mr. Anti

establishment being declared the winner and it's worth saying that in true

chumpian fashion he was very classy about his victory criticizing Haley's clothing,

warning that she had skeletons in her closet,

and issuing threats to any people who were donating to her, saying that they would never be part of MagoWorld if they

continued to support her. So, Damon, what's your sense of it? Is it over?

Is there something that we can learn

about the Republican Party

or about the shape of the rest of the race

based on New Hampshire?

Well, I have to say I've been one of the people

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