Defending Democracy with Republican Sarah Longwell
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Sarah Longwell is a veteran Republican Political Strategist who is at the center of key never-Trump organizations. She heads Defending Democracy Together, The Republican Accountability Project and is Publisher of The Bulwark. And is very outspoken about the GOP today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. We're back with another edition of the Bill Press pod and welcome. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to a conversation that I know you're going to love as much as I did. |
| 0:17.8 | Well, since Donald Trump took it over, locked stock and barrel, most of us have given up on the Republican Party. |
| 0:24.7 | They don't stand for anything. They don't believe in anything. They don't do anything except kiss |
| 0:29.8 | Donald Trump's ass. But there are still a small but influential number of Republicans out there, |
| 0:37.1 | brave enough to stand up to Donald Trump. |
| 0:39.6 | We've talked to a few of them, as you know, on this podcast, Michael Steele, Bill Crystal, |
| 0:44.6 | Barbara Comstock, Christy Todd Whitman, and Charlie Sykes. Today we meet another one, |
| 0:51.3 | perhaps the most outspoken and visible of all of them. She's Sarah Longwell, |
| 0:57.7 | a Republican political strategist, one of the founders, now the publisher of the bulwark, |
| 1:03.6 | and she's made at her mission in 2020 and now 2022 to convince moderate Republicans not to vote for Donald Trump, nor for Trump |
| 1:15.0 | Republicans. We caught up with Sarah Longwell just a couple of days after the RNC voted to censure |
| 1:21.1 | anti-Trump Republicans, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinsiger. Sarah Longwell, good to connect with you. |
| 1:28.1 | Thank you for joining us on the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:31.1 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:32.7 | So, Sarah, as a political strategist, a Republican political strategist, I must ask, |
| 1:40.1 | is what you saw on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol possibly defined as legitimate political discourse? |
| 1:50.0 | I think not. I think not. I tweeted something to the effect of, hey, you know, I had a disagreement with over politics with my friend the other night. And so I bear sprayed him and beat him, bludgeoned him with a flagpole. And I was surprised when he |
| 2:06.2 | objected because we were just engaging in legitimate political discourse. Um, no. And I think that actually, |
| 2:11.6 | um, you know, I, I have this, I have this desire to joke about it. But I'm, but it's actually |
| 2:17.1 | not funny at all because what's happening is the normalization of political violence as legitimate political protest and or speech, which of course there is, I am a rock-ribbed free speech defender. |
| 2:35.5 | But, you know, the limitations really are when you start tasing cops with their own tasers and bludgeoning people with flagpoles. |
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