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The Gist

Do the Best and Brightest Ever Become President?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, former Daily Show head writer Elliott Kalan talks about his new Audible series Presidents are People Too! Kalan looks at the reasons so many mediocre candidates make it the White House, and tries to find something to admire in our crappiest commanders-in-chief. Kalan says watching this year's presidential election while studying American political history has been sobering. Think America has never been more divided? Congressmen used to cane each other in the 1850s.   Today's sponsors:  The Gist is brought to you by MVMT Watches. Get 15 percent off today—with free shipping and free returns—by going to mvmtwatches.com/gist.   And by InterContinental Hotels and Resorts. Take a multisensory journey into the InterContinental life, and discover stories that will excite your curiosity by going to intercontinental.com/life. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:38.0

It's Thursday, October 20th, 2016 from Slated's Digestive Mike Pasca.

0:43.0

And I'm in Las Vegas. Did I say that during last night's rapid response?

0:47.0

I was. You could have told from context clues.

0:50.0

Although when you hear this, I might be flying over who knows which of top.

0:54.0

You know, I was thinking about the debate which I attended last night.

0:57.0

I do believe that Donald Trump has robbed us. Now a lot of people say that.

1:00.0

He's robbed us of decency or if you're a Republican, he robbed you of a viable candidate.

1:05.0

But what I'm saying he's robbed us of is a decent argument.

1:09.0

Good arguments eventually have got to believe lead to better policies.

1:14.0

And arguments that are had over nonsense or on flimsy ground or on lies or on

1:19.0

misunderstandings don't lead to good policies. Let me give you a tangible example of what I need.

1:24.0

In the last debate, the debate before that and the debate before that,

1:28.0

Trump did a variation on this theme.

1:30.0

Just go to our website. She tells you how to fight ISIS on a website.

1:34.0

I don't think General Douglas MacArthur would like that too much.

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