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The This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent. In the day leading up to the No King's protests, President Trump and Republicans widely derided the protesters as extremists, criminals, and terrorists.

Then the protests actually happened. They were a wild success, peaceful, enormous,

and representative of a very wide swath of American society. So what did Republicans do in response?

They just kept on calling the protesters, criminals, and terrorists. Republicans only seemed able

to talk to their own base about these extraordinary

events. And in his response, Trump accidentally revealed in his own way that the protests had

actually succeeded. Writer Anna Marie Cox has a great piece for the New Republic reporting on what

the protests looked like in a red county in Texas, an area that just happens to be

represented by MAGA Republican Chip Roy, who had his own deranged response to them.

So we're talking to her about all this today.

Anna, thanks for coming on.

Hi, it's good to be here.

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