Welcome to Beg to Bueg to Differ.

The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion

featuring civil conversation across the

political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona

Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the bulwark and I'm joined by our regulars

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker of the week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center who has returned. And our special guest this week is Tom Nichols,

contributor to the Atlantic. And Tom, you are no longer a professor at the war college. Is that right?

I am days away from being sent off to my

dacha yes so I'm about to retire from the Naval War College, but I'll keep on with Harvard Extension and the Atlantic.

Okay, excellent. Well, we're glad to have you and Dachshas may become relevant in our second topic when we get to Ukraine.

But for now, I want to begin with a little talk

about something that got a little attention this week,

namely the Republican National Committee issued a denunciation of

Lucyney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the January 6th

committee and saying faithfully that the events of January 6th were legitimate political discourse.

So this received a certain amount of pushback, if not outright horror.

And let's hear from Senator Mitch McConnell.

It was a violent insurrection for the purpose

of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately

certified election from one administration to the next.

So since then there's been a lot of weasley talk by Kevin McCarthy and others saying, oh, actually they didn't mean to imply that the people who actually stormed the Capitol were engaged in legitimate political discourse.

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