Welcome to Beg to

Beg to Differ, The Bull Works weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil

conversation across the political spectrum we range from center left to

center right I'm Mona Charon syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I am joined by our regulars

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker, who writes the

sub-stack newsletter notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center.

We are delighted this week to welcome as our special guest, Peter Wainer, contributor to the New York Times and the Atlantic.

Welcome, one and all.

We have a lot to get to this week and I'd like to begin with Holy Week and with the celebration that Donald Trump is participating in regarding

this religious observance.

He is Hawking the quote only Bible endorsed by President Trump.

He calls it easy to read, it has large print, and he says,

Happy Holy Week, Let's make America pray again.

And he wants to encourage everyone to get one.

Also, this is the Lee Greenwood version of the Bible.

So it not only contains the King James version of the Bible,

but it also includes copies of the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence

and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus from the Lee Greenwood song proud to be an American.

So Pete, I cannot phrase it better than what Nick Katagio of the dispatch wrote.

He said, this sales pitch distills the man

to his essence in a way that few Trump sound bites do.

Simultaneously sinister, amusing, grossly hypocritical, wincingly kitchy and dripping with

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