Here Come the Vichy Republicans

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🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Jacob Weisberg talks to John Podhoretz, Editor at Commentary Magazine, about Vichy Republicans and striking back at Trump’s supporters on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He has a lot of great ideas.
0:03.0	He's not a stupid man, he's worth $9 billion.
0:05.5	I feel like our country is going down the drain.
0:08.0	He's actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America.
0:13.0	There is no question that this is the person who will go to Washington, D.C. and be able to
0:17.3	absolutely turn the place around.
0:27.8	Welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the bargain shopper for fully depreciated jumbo jets
0:32.5	known as Donald Trump.
0:34.2	I'm Jacob Weisberg.
0:35.7	A couple of months ago, a consultant in Florida, a guy called Rick Wilson coined a great
0:40.2	term.
0:41.2	He said that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and other Republicans scrambling to endorse
0:45.6	Trump were the V-She Republicans.
0:48.8	You get the analogy, right?
0:50.1	It's to the cheesy-ding surrender monkeys who collaborated with the Nazis occupying France
0:54.7	during World War II as opposed to the French resistance who courageously fought them from
0:59.6	underground.
1:00.6	When we talk about V-She Republicans, we're not talking about the Yahoo's who supported
1:05.5	Trump all along, the Sarah Paylins and the Ted Nugens and the Michael Savage's.
1:11.0	Those people are sincere idiots.
1:13.0	We're talking about the outstanding moral cowards, the people who are supposed to have
1:17.2	conservative principles, but turn out to be just totes and suck-ups to the dictator
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