Rick Wilson & Ben Wikler
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast
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4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson parses the right’s escalating rhetoric of revenge for Charlie Kirk’s death. Former chair of the Wisconsin Democrats Ben Wikler discusses how the Democratic Party effectively builds to counter the GOP.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. |
| 0:08.0 | What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? |
| 0:12.2 | Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. |
| 0:18.8 | Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. |
| 0:23.2 | It's about the scariest night of my life. This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on |
| 0:30.3 | the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discuss the top political headlines |
| 0:41.1 | with some of today's best minds, and Republican Representative Michael McCall won't seek |
| 0:46.9 | re-election after 11 terms. |
| 0:50.1 | We have such a great show for you today. |
| 0:52.3 | The Lincoln Project Zone, Rick Wilson joins us to discuss the rights escalating rhetoric of revenge for Charlie Kirk's death. |
| 1:00.3 | Ben will talk to the former chair of the Wisconsin Democrats, Ben Wickler, about how the Democratic Party effectively builds to counter the GOP. But first, the news. |
| 1:12.5 | So, Bali, there is a leadership fight of Bruin. It seems Chris Van Hollen is looking to become the |
| 1:19.4 | leader in the Senate. Hakeem Jeffries has some choice words for him, but I think Chris is dead on |
| 1:25.4 | here and it's the type of fighter I think we can use personally. |
| 1:28.4 | Chris Van Hollen had this really good point about Mondami, and he said, yet many members of |
| 1:35.3 | the Senate and the House representing New York have stayed on the sidelines. And he's right. |
| 1:40.3 | He said that that kind of spineless politics is what people are sick of. |
| 1:44.7 | They need to get behind him and get behind him now. |
| 1:47.5 | That's about as hoarse words as Dems do. |
| 1:49.5 | That's like a political smack in the face to start a fight. |
| 1:52.3 | I've ever seen one. |
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