Meet The New Trump, Same As The Old Trump—Except On Benzos

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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John is joined by a trio of prominent if disaffected (or fully lapsed) Republican strategists: former Trump White House staffer and current co-host of The View and political analyst for CNN, Alyssa Farah Griffin; former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, co-founder of The Weekly Standard, and editor-at-large of The Bulwark, Bill Kristol; and former Jeb Bush adviser and Republican National Committee spokesman turned host of The Bulwark Podcast and Not My Party on Snapchat, Tim Miller. At the close of a jubilant G.O.P. convention in Milwaukee, they discuss the political implications of the failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump, Trump's efforts to recast himself as a kinder, gentler Emperor of the MAGA-sphere, and the continuing crisis in the Democratic Party over the fate of Joe Biden’s reelection bid. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:49.6	quarters of power and influence in America shaping our culture and our politics, which, as it happens,
0:57.4	this week have been playing out in primetime and technicolor as Donald Trump and his Republican Party and make no mistake the
1:05.2	GOP is now 100% Trump's party through and through they have staged a national convention in Milwaukee, where I am, that creating a curve
1:17.3	has been notably unified, optimistic, and by any standard, jubilant, energized, and upbeat.
1:27.0	At the center of the spectacle, as always is Donald Trump himself, who knows as well as
1:30.6	his beer, brought, and cheese stuffed devotees at the Pfizer Forum that he is now sitting
1:36.3	on the first, unambiguous lead in the summer of a presidential election year since 2004 for Republicans a lead that feels
1:44.6	surpassingly solid especially as the Democratic Party finds itself
1:48.2	barreling towards the end game of one of the most traumatic painful and
1:52.2	potentially damaging existential crises of the modern political era.
1:57.0	To chew over and chop up all of this, we have an awesome assemblage of super talented talkers on the show today starting with
2:04.0	Alyssa Farah Griffin, Republican Communication Strategist par excellence whose career
2:08.7	has taken her from the far right website World Net Daily, which amazingly her father founded to post as the
2:16.5	Press Secretary for Mark Meadows, the Communications Director for the House Freedom
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