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🗓️ 3 November 2025
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The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson examines how Trump’s government has become so dysfunctional it can’t even keep airports running. New York Magazine’s Irin Carmon details her new book Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Molly JongFast, and this is Fast Politics, where we discussed the top political headlines with some of today's best minds. |
| 0:13.3 | And in NBC News poll, finds that 52% of voters blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the ongoing shutdown. Well, 42% blame |
| 0:23.2 | Democrats in Congress. We have such a great show for you today. The Lincoln Project's own |
| 0:27.5 | Rick Wilson joins us to discuss Trump's government being unable to keep airports functioning. |
| 0:34.0 | New York Magazine's own Erin Carmon stops by to talk about her new book, Unbearable, Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America. |
| 0:43.2 | But first, the news. |
| 0:44.5 | Molly, we have a new poll that shows something that will not be the least bit shocking to you and I. |
| 0:50.6 | Pew Research is saying that Democrats are frustrated with their party, and there's a |
| 0:55.4 | huge increase in the ones who are. Honestly, anyone who has talked to a person who is not in the |
| 1:05.0 | business, in the politics business, knows that the American people are fucking pissed. And they're pissed of Republicans and |
| 1:12.7 | they're pissed at Democrats. Now, they're more mad at Trump, which is good and is true because |
| 1:19.0 | Republicans control the House, the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court, etc., etc., etc. |
| 1:30.5 | But Democrats are also mad and they're mad at their leadership. And you know this. 67% of Democrats say they're frustrated with their party up for |
| 1:36.3 | about half in pupils from 2021 and 2019. That's because in 2016, American people felt that the Democrats were doing what they wanted. |
| 1:47.9 | They were fighting in a way they wanted. |
| 1:50.1 | Now a lot of Democrats are mad. |
| 1:52.2 | They feel that they're not getting the kind of fight they want from Democrats. |
| 1:56.0 | And that's why Chuck Schumer really had to do the shutdown because his constituents wanted him to shut down the government. |
| 2:04.0 | And I think it was really a smart thing to do. |
| 2:06.8 | I think it actually has got people talking about health care. |
| 2:10.1 | And it was the only thing Democrats could do to get the conversation going about health care and to throw some sand in the gears because the |
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