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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Tim Miller from the bulwark. I just got off MSNBC, and we're discussing Donald Trump's full frontal effort now to have his Department of Justice investigate the supposed crime of the century of the 2020 election being stolen from him. |
| 0:14.9 | Obviously, this is all fabricated nonsense. And we get into a lot of like what that means, how in some ways it's scary and other |
| 0:23.4 | ways it's farcical. Talk about how Donald Trump and the Maga Right is co-opting these terms |
| 0:29.6 | of democracy and doing it with some political effect annoyingly. And so we get into all of that and I |
| 0:36.2 | want you to stick around for it. But first, |
| 0:37.9 | at the end of that segment, I'm talking about democracy. Chris Jansen kind of pivoted into |
| 0:42.9 | the Zoron rally last night and asked my co-panel, too I love Basil Smichael, to kind of analyze |
| 0:49.6 | that. And she played some highlights from Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Zora Mondani's speech at that, like, really |
| 0:55.4 | impressive rally and sort of asked him about, you know, how their messaging intersects with these |
| 1:00.3 | questions around democracy. And I didn't come back to me. I didn't get a chance to talk about that. |
| 1:06.0 | That's nice to we would have my own channels. Now I get to, you know, do some postgame with you guys |
| 1:10.5 | and give you my takes on that, which I'm sure you're dying to hear. And now I get to, you know, do some postgame with you guys and give you my |
| 1:11.8 | takes on that, which I'm sure you're dying to hear. And so I want to play for you that |
| 1:15.8 | highlight reel that they clipped on MSNBC of the three speakers and then talk to you about |
| 1:21.0 | that on the other side and some other things I've noticed about Zoron's messaging. |
| 1:24.0 | The very forces that Zohran is up against in this race mirrors what we are |
| 1:31.1 | up against nationally. This election is taking place when we have an administration in Washington |
| 1:37.6 | which every day is moving us toward an authoritarian society. I stand before you tonight as the nominee of a Democratic |
| 1:48.2 | party reinvigorated in its pursuit of making government work for everyone, not just the wealthy |
| 1:55.9 | and the well-connected. So interesting. Now, obviously, you know, they're just playing a couple sentences from these long speeches. |
| 2:02.6 | And while I think of this, pretty representative of the way each person spoke, obviously, like they talked about other stuff as well over the course of their speech. |
| 2:08.6 | And my friend Liz Smith was talking to New York Magazine. And she called this basically Bernie AOC and Zoran, DSA 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. |
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