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The Bulwark Podcast

Rachel Kleinfeld: Republicans Have a Militia Problem

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Trump created a permission structure for militia groups starting in 2016, and now those groups are infiltrating state and local Republican parties around the country. The Carnegie Endowment's Rachel Kleinfeld joins Charlie Sykes to discuss the growing threat from the mainstreaming of political violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.8

I'm Shirley Sykes.

0:41.8

Today is primary election day in some states across the country, places like Michigan, Arizona,

0:48.5

and Missouri where voters are heading to the polls to decide which brand of crazy they

0:52.5

want to embrace, also Washington State.

0:55.7

Interestingly enough, in Missouri, the former president of the United States apparently

0:59.9

could not make up his mind and instead of endorsing one or other of the various deplorable

1:06.4

candidates running for US Senate, he decided just to endorse all of the Erics, even though

1:11.5

there are multiple Erics in the race, a reminder that Donald Trump is basically a troll who

1:18.5

is not going to be playing necessarily a constructive role.

1:22.8

This is the first podcast of the month of August.

1:26.3

I am old enough to remember when August was considered the dog days and the news cycle

1:31.1

would kind of take a breather, but I don't know that that's been true at least for the

1:35.9

past six or seven years.

1:38.7

So of course we wake up today with another alkydlyder biting the dust.

1:44.1

And Biden announcing that yesterday, Nancy Pelosi, apparently heading to Taiwan, amid

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