Quick Take: Guns, Gays and Girls
The Michael Steele Podcast
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Michael Steele speaks with Miles Taylor about his new book, "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump." Miles discusses his takeaway from blowing the whistle on Trump as a White House insider, the current Republican agenda and what a Trump 2.0 would look like.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Michael Steele Podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from |
| 0:12.5 | the Michael Steele Podcast. Check out what's going on right now. |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele Podcast and it's time to have a little blowback. |
| 0:21.5 | Get into it with Miles Taylor, the author of the new book. There it is. One, two, baby. |
| 0:27.5 | We're excited to have Miles with us as he releases a blowback, a warning to save democracy |
| 0:34.4 | from the next crump. And it's out now and we're excited about that. So let's talk a little |
| 0:42.6 | bit about one aspect of this, the setup for this upcoming campaign. A big component we see |
| 0:50.8 | it play out with a number of these candidates, particularly guys like DeSantis around this |
| 0:55.9 | culture war narrative, where, you know, the primary legislative agenda, not so much |
| 1:02.5 | at federal level, but what we've seen so far at the state levels has been about guns, |
| 1:06.0 | gays, and girls, right? Talk to us about that. Talk to us about this non agenda agenda |
| 1:12.5 | that is sort of really setting in motion what the ultimate game plan is going to be going |
| 1:22.5 | into 24 against Joe Biden and the Democrats. Well, this goes back in time, Michael, and |
| 1:28.0 | I'm going to make it personal by bringing you into the equation, which is when you were |
| 1:33.1 | chairman of the Republican National Committee, and I was just a little baby bushy, I just left |
| 1:38.1 | the Bush administration, you know, climbing my way up the Washington career ladder, you |
| 1:43.7 | painted a picture of a Republican party that was not fanatically obsessed with the culture |
| 1:49.8 | rules. And to be blunter, millennials like me don't give a fuck about social issues. You |
| 1:56.6 | know, we, I was a fiscal conservative. I'm probably more libertarian than you. I mean, |
| 2:01.7 | I don't know. I'm like, I want government, tiny, tiny, tiny out of my life. I'm a super |
| 2:05.8 | libertarian. And liberals are always surprised to find that out. They're like, well, you |
| 2:09.3 | oppose Trump. I'm like, yeah, but you're not going to get along with me. But we share |
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