No Such Thing as Rock Bottom

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Was Wednesday’s storming of the Capitol by Trump rally-goers inevitable? Should President Trump be impeached? Where does the Republican Party go from here? Our staff members have been warning about the dangers of Trumpism long before The Dispatch was launched in October 2019. But as David says, “never has vindication felt so miserable.” After all, as he points out, “the vindication was while the republic was under direct attack.” On today’s episode, Sarah and the guys break down the series of events that led to yesterday’s violence. Andrew and Audrey join the show to discuss their on-the-ground reporting at the Capitol on Wednesday, where they spent all day interviewing rally attendees. Show Notes: -“The Storming of the Capitol” by Andrew Egger and Audrey Fahlberg in The Dispatch. -“Impeach Donald Trump, Remove Him, and Bar Him From Holding Office Ever Again” by The Dispatch staff. -“We in the ‘shallow state’ thought we could help. Instead, we obscured the reality of a Trump presidency.” by Sarah Isgur in the Washington Post. -“A Day at the Million MAGA March” by Audrey Fahlberg in The Dispatch. -“If He Loses, Trump Will Concede Gracefully,” by Mick Mulvaney in the Wall Street Journal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the dispatch podcast and happy New Year to all of you.
0:04.3	We're going to do things a little differently today because there's only one thing we want to talk about.
0:09.0	We've brought on two of our writers to help us today.
0:11.8	Audrey, Fallberg and Andrew Egger were there at the March this week that turned violent,
0:17.8	that sacked the capital.
0:19.9	We want to also hear from them what they saw firsthand,
0:22.9	their impressions of what was going on, how it could have been stopped.
0:27.1	As always, I am joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg and David French,
0:32.5	who will have plenty of their own thoughts on what has happened this week.
0:51.6	Let's dive right in.
0:52.8	The dispatch published its first editorial this morning.
0:56.5	Steve, can you talk to us a little bit about that process and what we said as an organization?
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.8	We have had a policy from the very beginning that we didn't want to do a lot of editorials.
1:11.7	We weren't going to do anything like a daily editorial.
1:13.7	We thought we'd weigh in when events weren't.
1:17.8	And we decided that the events of the capital and looking back over what's happened
1:23.6	in the past few weeks certainly warranted an institutional voice from us.
1:30.9	So we wrote an editorial, drafted an editorial.
1:36.0	David did a lot of the heavy lifting.
1:37.4	Jonah added a bunch.
1:38.7	You had thoughts.
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