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The Bulwark Podcast

David Frum: Leveraging Violence as a Tool of Power

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Trump and the people around him want to use the Kirk assassination to suppress their political opposition. And Trump is clearly laying the groundwork for cracking down on people he doesn't like—peaceful protesters, Dem fundraisers—while also offering rhetorical comfort to potential vigilantes on the right. Meanwhile, we are witnessing the danger of having an incompetent person atop the FBI, who alternates his time between posting for clicks and purging the bureau of highly qualified personnel for political cred. Plus, Vance is running for the 2028 nomination every day, the raid on the Georgia Hyundai plant shows the incoherence and stupidity of Trump's economic vision, and as Putin tests the resilience of NATO, the White House is playing politics in Poland.

David Frum joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

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Music Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. In honor of our favorite Canadian guest, we've got today, I got a quick announcement for our friends up north.

1:16.7

Toronto, we sold out to the event in two weeks on September 26th in like two seconds.

1:20.3

There's so many Canadians who want to come, which we really appreciate. Maybe they want to come just to throw tomatoes at Sam Stein. We don't know. But we are looking to add a kind of a brunch

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encore show on Saturday, September 27th.

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So if you're in Toronto or somewhere else in Canada or looking for an excuse to go to Toronto, Detroit,

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keep an eye on the bulwark.com slash events early next week.

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We might have some extra tickets coming.

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All right.

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Our guest, he's a staff writer at the Atlantic.

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He's author of 10 books, including Trumpocracy, as podcast, is the David From show. It's kind of new. It's going up

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