'Exciting, blustering nutjobs': Republican Parties in five key states floundering

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us this hour.
0:01.4	Good to have you here tonight.
0:03.8	All right, here it is.
0:05.4	You ready?
0:07.4	In late December, Philip Johnson and Alan Blackburn
0:11.6	summoned a reporter from the New York Harold Tribune
0:14.7	to Johnson's office at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
0:17.6	City.
0:18.4	They were offering an exclusive.
0:21.2	The Harold Tribune called them adventurers
0:23.6	with an intellectual overlay and explained
0:26.8	that the two were taking a sabbatical
0:29.2	from the museum in order to start a new political movement.
0:34.3	They were calling it the National Party,
0:36.6	and they were lighting out for Louisiana
0:38.4	the very next day to try to sign on Huey Long
0:42.1	as their new national leader.
0:44.2	Johnson and Blackburn then revealed the National Party's
0:46.9	seemingly idiotic slogan to the reporter.
0:50.3	It was, the need is for one party.
0:54.0	They also showed him the snazzy new penance they had designed,
0:57.5	blazoned with an aerodynamic flying wedge series of emblems.
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