"Rational Exuberance"

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Charlie Sykes joins the panel to discuss the rise of Harris, the decline of Trump (in more ways than one?), and the Iranian hack of Trump's campaign.

Highlights / Lowlights

Charlie:
- Highlight: 2 outspoken election deniers lose GOP primaries for state Legislature
- Lowlight: The ongoing stolen valor attacks on Gov. Walz
Mona:
- Lowlight: How Trump's infatuation with a racist conspiracy theorist is impacting the campaign (Judd Legum and Noel Sims)
Damon:
- Highlight: Ukraine’s Push Into Russia Met Early Success. Where Does It Go From Here?
Bill:
- Lowlights: The Swiftboating of Tim Walz
- Netanyahu accuses defense minister of ‘anti-Israel narrative,’ exposing rift over war in Gaza
Linda:
- Lowlight: Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting (Eli Lake, The FP)

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the official Trump campaign war room and they are embracing nakedly racist memes.
0:07.2	And you know we do have to ask ourselves, you know on Earth 2.0 this would be dominating the news cycle.
0:12.4	We'd be talking about Willie Horton. Why is this acceptable? this would be
0:13.0	be talking about Willie Horton.
0:14.0	Why is this acceptable?
0:15.0	Republicans would be asked everywhere.
0:17.0	What do you think of the way that he is playing the race card?
0:21.0	And with Trump, this year, it feels like it's just another day that ends with why.
0:25.0	And I think this is another example of how we sort of become numbed, and his various pathologies have become normalized. Welcome to Begg to Differ.
0:39.4	The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation
0:44.7	across the political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm
0:48.7	Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullworkwork and I'm joined by our regulars
0:54.2	Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker
0:58.8	who writes the sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.
1:04.8	Our special guest this week is Charlie Sykes, one of the founders of the Bulwork, currently
1:10.1	MS NBC contributor and author of the sub-stack newsletter to the contrary which I
1:16.2	highly recommend to all of you if I run into financial reverses in the coming
1:22.3	years it's going to be by because I subscribe to to financial reverses in the coming years.
1:22.7	It's going to be by because I subscribe
1:24.8	to so many great substocks, but honestly,
1:27.4	Charlie, yours is so great.
1:28.8	I have to have it.
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