Quick Take: Is It the Party of Trump or MTG?
The Michael Steele Podcast
Two Squared Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Check out Jeremy's book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586398/insurgency-by-jeremy-w-peters/
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| 0:38.0 | Hey, Michael Steel Podcast listeners. Michael Steel here with another quick take from the |
| 0:42.2 | Michael Steel Podcast. Check out what's going on right now. |
| 0:46.2 | We have great conversation with Jeremy Peters, New York Times, Correspondent who's written |
| 0:51.9 | a great book that really goes beyond where a lot of the other Trump books have gone. He's |
| 0:59.9 | taking the path less tried. Let's look at some of the things and the people and the players |
| 1:05.7 | that led up to Trump and how that has set the new tone for the GOP. The book is in |
| 1:12.8 | search and see how Republicans lost their way and got everything they ever wanted. It's interesting |
| 1:22.4 | in some respects this idea of the party and the man and how there's a symbiosis between |
| 1:33.1 | them. And having run the party, as you detail it points to the book, my battles with the |
| 1:39.9 | Rush Limbaugh and then realizing that this guy really didn't give a shit about this because |
| 1:46.2 | he's telling me one thing in our private conversations and going out on an air and blasting me for |
| 1:53.6 | the very thing he told me, I got it. I am an entertainer. And he said something. |
| 1:59.9 | You dared to say so. And I you get, break over the coals and almost tossed out of your job |
| 2:06.1 | what six weeks in. Yeah. Because you dared to speak the truth. It's both the truth. I'm |
| 2:10.8 | like, wait a minute, dude, I'm quoting him. I'm like, I'm not going back and look at the |
| 2:16.1 | videotape. But it does say a lot about that sort of evolution of the party. And how it |
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