Inside the Mad House with Annie Karni & Luke Broadwater

The Home Front

Reed Galen

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by authors Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater to discuss their new book, “Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man with Rats in His Walls Broke Congress”...which is available wherever fine books are sold. They get into the current state of Congress, particularly focusing on the rise of figures like Matt Gaetz and the dysfunction of the 118th Congress. Plus, the unseriousness of Congress, the impact of factionalism, and the interpersonal relationships among lawmakers, and highlighting the contrasting personalities of figures like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene. For more from Annie Karni follow her reporting for The New York Times as a Congressional Correspondent. For more from Luke Broadwater follow his reporting for the New York Times as a White House Correspondent. For more from Reed Galen, subscribe to The Home Front, check out Sez Us for a new social media platform for sane people, and if you want to personally join the fight to save our nation’s democracy, visit JoinTheUnion.us and sign up today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.6	Welcome back to the Homefront.
1:00.5	I'm your host, Reid Galen.
1:02.3	Today, I'm joined by Annie Carney and Luke Broadwater, who are the authors of Madhouse,
1:07.4	how Donald Trump, Maga Mean Girls, a former used car salesman, a Florida
1:11.5	Nepo baby, and a man with rats in his walls broke Congress, which was published just in
1:16.4	March of this year and available wherever fine books are sold. Annie is a congressional correspondent
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