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Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

Courting Disaster

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Former Rep Adam Kinzinger joins the group (plus Chris Cillizza) to discuss the Court's worst ruling since Korematsu, opening the door to God know what if Trump wins. Also, what would an open convention look like?

Highlights / Lowlights:

Mona: Are We in ‘Soviet America’? Not Even Close. By Cathy Young, The Bulwark

Linda: Her trip to Israel, where she was recording.

Adam: Cara Mund, a sincere Never Trump candidate who ran (and lost, but got 19%!) in North Dakota. Adam joined her on her radio show to discuss the state of the Republican Party

Chris: Gabe Fleisher's Wake up to Politics. Gabe has been writing about politics since he was a child and is a politics prodigy. (Substack here)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You know, Adam, this ruling feels like it's from another planet. It is a ruling about how we want

0:11.2

an energetic executive that's not too constrained by worries about overzealous prosecutors

0:21.1

breathing down its neck after he leaves office.

0:24.8

That's not the world we're living in.

0:26.8

We're living in a world with a guy who is the most likely occupant of the office is Trump himself who has shown every indication

0:36.3

to push his authority beyond legal bounds.

0:49.0

This podcast is brought to you by Better Help.

0:51.0

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

0:57.0

We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork, and I'm Mona Charon, Cinicated Columnist and Policy Editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by one of our regulars,

1:05.8

Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

1:08.8

Damon Linker is off this week and Bill Galston was supposed to be here but he had a computer problem and so we are we're

1:18.6

going to have to soldier on without him fortunately sitting in this week is Chris Saliza. Welcome back and our special

1:26.1

guest is former congressman Adam Kinzinger, who is also a new contributor I'm

1:32.1

proud to say of of the Bullwork, and was one of only two Republicans

1:38.5

to serve on the January 6th committee and belongs in the role of honor for how he how he managed all of that.

1:48.3

So thanks guys for being here.

1:52.1

Let us begin with the Supreme Court. It is, I guess, my misfortune that I am still

2:00.8

capable of being shocked and I didn't see this one coming.

2:07.2

I cannot believe that a conservative majority all six five and a half by some counts but

2:16.6

basically all six members of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court

2:21.9

issued a ruling that may go down in history as the

2:27.6

worst since Coramatsu. It is it is an outrate. Well, I'll leave the editorializing for later.

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