Aloha, Namaste, and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilmane Puck and Odyssey Joint.

And at the end of a week, when the social media emanations of Donald Trump towards Iran,

open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.

Praise be to Allah.

And the whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

I don't want it to happen, but they probably will.

Caused many, many Americans across the ideological spectrum, including, notably, the farthest reaches of the right

and the molten core of the MAGA movement, to question not merely Trump's strategy or temperamental

suitability to the office he holds, but his very sanity, it seemed appropriate to have someone

on the show today who has been asking those questions

and providing definitive, declarative, and damning answers to them for coming up on a decade now.

A man once married to Trump's first campaign manager and rumored to be Trump's pick to run

the civil division of the Justice Department back in 2017, who then pulled a sharp 180,

co-founding the Lincoln Project and emerging as one of the most voluble and visible never-Trump

Republicans in the country, and who has now returned from Washington to New York to run in the

Democratic primary to fill the congressional seat being vacated by Jerry Nadler,

representing the state's 12th congressional district, which encompasses much of Manhattan,

stretching from Chelsea, the Flatiron, and Stuyvesantown on its southern border to the tips

of the upper west and upper east sides on its northern edge. That's right, we're talking

here about George Conway. Now, because of

George's public profile and his repeat appearances on this show, the tone, tenor, and substance

of his congressional campaign will come as no surprise to our listeners. Just this morning, in fact,

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