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The Bulwark Podcast

Ron Brownstein: Don't Take the Bait

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Trump governed as a wartime president against blue America, so expect him to keep stirring up culture battles—but the Dems have to avoid getting drawn into them. Kamala and the party were undone in '24 by looking like they cared more about niche issues than putting food on the table. Meanwhile, Biden has left Trump a lot of room to consolidate a bigger coalition than he's ever had. Plus, for Republicans shrugging off climate change and threatening to withhold fire aid to California, here's a news flash: extreme weather is coming to a neighborhood near you.

 Ron Brownstein joins Tim Miller for the weekend 
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0:00.0

Hey guys, a couple programming notes.

0:02.0

Number one, my colleague, the great Mona Charin, she has a new pod out or a reform pod,

0:06.8

I guess we've begged to differ.

0:08.7

We have retired at the end of the Biden years.

0:11.6

And Mona is instead launching a new pod, the Mona Charon show, which is going to focus on long-form

0:18.1

conversations, you know, about big picture issues off of the news.

0:22.2

She's got Richard Reeves talking about, you know, the threats to men and this whole conversation

0:26.7

around that on the pot on Monday, which might be a distraction from whatever else is happening

0:31.2

in the news that day.

0:32.7

She's excited about it.

0:33.6

We're excited about it.

0:34.8

So I'll put a link in the show notes here.

0:36.2

Make sure you can go and subscribe to the feed to get it in your Apple Podcasts or Spotify podcasts. And we'll be doing

0:43.1

crossovers and have a moan on here to talk about it again soon. A couple of the things.

0:46.9

I'm popping on to YouTube either if there's breaking stuff in the afternoon after I've already

0:52.5

taped the pod or if they're

0:54.5

kind of niche topics, you know, where I'm doing interviews with people that I want to grab,

0:58.9

that we just kind of can't fit into the pod schedule.

1:01.0

So for an example on that, I talked to Jim Himes, congressman from Connecticut yesterday about

1:07.4

this fight over the Intel Committee chairmanship.

1:10.4

Super interesting and I think important

1:12.7

fight in the Republican coalition. If you're interested in that, you can go find it on

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