Josh Hawley Is Basically Making Meth For MAGA Nation

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode of The New Abnormal, Bulwark Editor-In-Chief Charlie Sykes tells Molly Jong-Fast why Josh Hawley and his fellow GOPers have major Breaking Bad vibes when it comes to supplying the Trump base with BS and the two surmise what is going on in McCarthy’s goldfish brain. Plus! TNA’s favorite vaccine disinfo buster Dr. Eric Topol shares the next big COVID vax move that could change the game and Democratic pollster John Anzalone makes the case that Biden is America’s new Marvel hero.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly Jongfast and welcome to the Daily Beast, the new abnormal.
0:05.8	I'm a left-wing pundit and an editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:09.6	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media, politics, and science
0:16.4	that help make what's happening in the country and the world clearer.
0:20.2	Our world has been turned up to a down.
0:22.3	On the new abnormal, we'll talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how to get ourselves out of it.
0:29.0	And I'm producer Jesse Cannon. I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.
0:33.6	Today we have a super interesting episode.
0:35.9	We'll be talking to Dr. Eric Topol, founder of the Scripps Research Transitional Institute, about the latest on vaccines
0:42.0	and what's next for the rollout.
0:43.6	Then we'll talk to John Anzaloni, a Democratic pollster about our favorite subject,
0:48.2	how the Dems win in the midterms.
0:50.3	But first, we have editor-in-chief of the Bullwark, and host of the Bullwark podcast, Charlie Sykes.
0:56.1	Welcome to the new abnormal, Charlie Sykes. I can't believe you've never been here.
1:01.2	I was sure we'd had you on like 15 times.
1:03.8	I just assume you had high standards.
1:05.7	I don't know. I was convinced.
1:10.0	I said to Jesse this weekend, I was like,
1:13.0	well, we can't have Charlie Sykes on again because we've had him so many.
1:15.7	And then I was like, oh my god, we've never had.
1:17.5	I mean, I'm such a fan of yours and I've been on your podcast, which is incredible.
1:21.6	But not recently enough, so we'll have to reciprocate.
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