Psychotic. Destructionist. Today's GOP. With David Corn and Dana Milbank
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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A Holiday Week special on the Pod today. No Reporters’ Roundtable but we reprise our talk to two great reporters on the long-term demise of the GOP as a functioning party. With David Corn, Washington Bureau Chief at Mother Jones and author of American Psychosis. A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy and Dana Milbank, Columnist at The Washington Post and author of The Destructionists. The Twenty-Five Year Crack-up of the Republican Party
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. It's Friday, December 23rd, the day before Christmas Eve and all of our |
| 0:13.2 | roundtable regulars are already out celebrating the holidays. So we have a special treat for you |
| 0:18.7 | today. Instead of looking back at the news of the week, this Friday and next, we're going to look back at four of the best political books of the year whose authors we've interviewed on an earlier podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | We start with two very important books by David Korn and Dana Milbank examining what the hell happened to the |
| 0:40.2 | Republican Party. |
| 0:42.0 | First, David Korn, Washington Bureau Chief of the Great Mother Jones magazine. |
| 0:48.0 | As he proves in his book, American psychosis, it didn't start with Donald Trump. |
| 0:56.7 | David traces the crack up of the Republican Party all the way back to Barry Goldwater, if not earlier. Hello, David Corn, and welcome back to |
| 1:03.9 | the Bill Press Pod. Good to be with you, Bill. Congratulations on the new book, American psychosis. A historical investigation of how the |
| 1:14.9 | Republican Party went crazy. Now, David, first of all, let me let me say that psychosis. I mean, |
| 1:21.7 | that's a pretty powerful word. I'm in severe mental disorder. |
| 1:30.5 | That's the Republican Party today? |
| 1:36.4 | Well, when you are detached from reality, I mean, that's psychosis. |
| 1:41.9 | When you don't understand or acknowledge reality, when you believe something that is not real. |
| 1:45.9 | If you look at the Republican Party right now, it's raison d'etra is the lost cause of Donald Trump's election. That is that it was stolen from him. That is a big lie. |
| 1:55.2 | We know that. But yet millions of Americans adhere to this, and it's become the motivating force of the Republican Party. |
| 2:05.6 | You had not just thousands of people at January 6th, but you have still, all this time later, millions of Americans who say the election was stolen that Joe Biden did not win legitimately. |
| 2:19.4 | There is no reason to believe that. |
| 2:23.2 | There's no evidence. |
| 2:24.5 | Every time I hear Marjorie Taylor Green or somebody else get up there and say the election |
| 2:29.1 | was stolen, I go, my God, don't you have some obligation to present evidence to back this up? |
| 2:40.3 | We know that during the January 6 hearings, one of them, Rusty Bowers, the Speaker of the Arizona State House, said that Rudy Giuliani told him in the post-election period, |
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