Rick Wilson: The Shamelessness of MAGA
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
From FCC Chair Brendan Carr—who keeps trying to silence the political opinions of late night TV comedians, to DHS pressuring social media companies to expose anti-ICE accounts, and to the willingness of serial killer RFK, Jr and his MAHA cohort to stack up dead children so they can keep their antivax con going—it’s clear the shamelessness of MAGA knows no bounds. But even if the coalition that delivered Trump’s victory in ‘24 has been shattered, the Dems have to skip the seven-point policy plans and focus on the economy and Trump’s corruption. And Dem candidates need to do their own tweeting. Plus, the potential legal peril for Kristi and Corey, Virginia went big and bold against Republicans on redistricting, and an homage to Jesse Jackson.
Rick Wilson joins Tim Miller.
show notes
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Will Sommer on Bannon's legal trouble with his memecoin
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Jonathan on the FDA's anti-vaccine agenda
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Rick on how the pro-democracy coalition is winning
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Colbert's banned interview with James Talarico
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Abby Phillip's book on Jesse Jackson, "A Dream Deferred"
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. Happy Marty Graw, |
| 0:17.2 | delighted to have with me, an old buddy, co-founder of the Lincoln Project AdMaker, |
| 0:21.2 | political strategist. His substack is against all enemies. We have a lot of those. It's Rick Wilson. What's up, man? Hey, how are you, brother? Happy in Mardi Gras. I'm well. I'm well. I'm happy to be here with you, you know, cut loose before Ash Wednesday a little bit, you know, be a little more sober-minded tomorrow. |
| 0:42.4 | You know, maybe sneak out to the quarter for a banana daquery after this. |
| 0:43.5 | Never hurts. Never hurts. |
| 0:44.6 | My child's already out there on the parade writ, you know, getting all the, getting all the bullshit. |
| 0:49.2 | Getting all the crap. |
| 0:50.9 | We got nothing but crap around here. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.1 | Our house. Nothing but crap. You got America's feed surplus. Yeah. The first floor of our |
| 0:58.8 | house is just full of shit. But A, everyone's got a lot of joy. We've got a bunch to get to. |
| 1:04.5 | Me and Bill Crystal did, I don't know, 30 minutes on Little Marco yesterday. And so I don't know |
| 1:10.5 | if we need to belabor the point too much, |
| 1:12.2 | but I feel very remiss to not let you, you know, take a few bites out of your fellow Florida man. |
| 1:16.9 | I wonder what you thought about his Munich and, you know, as a guy as a guy who supported Marco, |
| 1:21.3 | you know, as far back as when he ran for Speaker of the House, a bunch of Silicon Valley |
| 1:26.5 | guys who put together an outside Marco |
| 1:28.0 | effort in 16 that I worked on. I was a longtime supporter of Marco Rubio because, you know, |
| 1:34.1 | it seemed like Marco was our future. It seemed like Marco was a guy who could communicate |
| 1:38.8 | with with a rising cohort of voters and was not going to get swept up in the crappulousness of the, |
| 1:46.3 | of Trumpism. And yet, he is their greatest prize in some ways because he has fallen the |
| 1:52.2 | furthest and has given up everything he ever claimed to believe in. And this week, you know, |
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