Chatter: From Right-Wing Radio to the Heart of the Never Trump Movement, with Charlie Sykes
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Charlie Sykes recently stepped down as host of the Bulwark Podcast. He's a regular commentator on MSNBC, and has written a number of books. He tells the story here of his political journey, from being a page for the Wisconsin delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, to being a working journalist increasingly disenchanted with conventional liberalism, to finding a home in Reagan Republicanism and becoming more of a political warrior than he ever meant to be--and then leaving the whole thing behind over Trumpism.
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| 1:09.0 | This week on Chatter, Charlie Sykes on his journey |
| 1:11.0 | from the Democratic 1968 Convention to right-wing radio to the heart of the |
| 1:17.4 | Never Trump movement. |
| 1:20.8 | In 2012, they didn't nominate Hermann Kane. |
| 1:23.6 | They didn't nominate Michelle Bachman. |
| 1:25.1 | They nominated Mitt Wam. |
| 1:27.2 | And I think that this was the assumption that a lot of Republicans had. |
| 1:30.5 | You know, these people rise, and yet the rational grown-ups, you know, would win the day. |
| 1:35.0 | And I think people thought that was what was going to happen in 2016, and obviously that was one of the great |
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