David Frum: Biden's Blurt Problem

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Putin's left-wing supporters may be voluble on social media, but his supporters on the right are a political force. Plus, America's crushing labor shortage, asylum laws, and the border problem. David Frum joins Charlie Sykes today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Bull Work podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is Tuesday and we are joined by my
0:14.0	good friend David from Staff Rider at the Atlantic who is the author of 10 books most recently
0:18.8	from Pocca Lips and Trumpocracy. David, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much for
0:24.6	having me back. Well, I want to talk about Ukraine, Kevin McCarthy, the border, but could we just
0:29.6	start with this little palette cleanser from last night's Ohio Senate debate between Tim Ryan and
0:34.8	JD Vance in case you all missed it. There was this moment where Tim Ryan is reminding JD Vance of
0:44.0	something that happened at a recent rally that he held with the former guy. Like just a few weeks
0:50.0	ago in Youngstown on the stage, Donald Trump said to JD Vance, all you do is kiss my ass to get my
0:58.4	support. He said that. That's bad because that means JD Vance is going to do whatever he wants.
1:04.4	Mitch McConnell has given him 40 million. He's going to do what he wants and Peter Teal gave him
1:08.2	15 million. He's going to do what he wants. And here's the thing that's most troubling about this.
1:12.5	Black of courage is that after Trump took JD Vance's dignity from him on the stage in Youngstown.
1:20.7	JD Vance got back up on stage and said, start shaking his hand, take a picture saying,
1:24.7	hey, aren't we having a great time here tonight? I don't know. Anybody I grew up with? I don't know.
1:30.0	Anybody I went to high school with that would allow somebody to take their dignity like that.
1:34.8	And then get back up on stage. We need leaders who have courage to take on their own party.
1:40.3	And I've proven that and he was called an ask kisser by the former president.
1:44.9	And then he came back to this a little bit later saying, I'm for a high. I don't kiss anyone's
1:48.8	ass like Camel Hound needs an ass kicker, not an ass kisser. So I don't know that it makes a
1:56.8	difference in that particular race. But you know, it is interesting that he highlighted the
2:02.0	self-humiliation of JD Vance, but that self-humiliation has really become a feature of politics circa
2:07.7	2022, isn't it? Yeah, I'm sure JD bled a little on the inside. And it obviously created a moment
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