Stop Making Excuses for Americans

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Kevin D. Williamson of The Dispatch muses about the voters' culpability for Trump, socialism, and the "Abundance" agenda. They explore the cultural and economic decline of American civic virtue, the bipartisan slide into demagoguery, and Williamson’s disdain for both Trumpism and technocratic central planning.

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0:00.0	Rural communities are being squeezed from every side.
0:05.0	From rising health care costs to crumbling hospitals,
0:08.0	from attacks on public schools, to the fight for paid family and medical leave.
0:13.0	Farmers and small businesses are reeling from the trade war,
0:18.0	and now Project 2025 is back, with a plan to finish what Elon Musk started.
0:24.8	Trump and the Republicans won rural votes, then turn their backs on us.
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