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🗓️ 18 February 2024
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David Frum from The Atlantic Monthly discusses the chaos that Donald Trump would bring if he were elected to a second term. From the border to foreign aid to Trump's attempt to pardon his crimes... Can we withstand another Trump term?
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0:28.0 | Hey everybody, we got a great one today you know for a change David from of the |
0:38.6 | Atlantic Monthly joins me a man who knows Washington and how the government works, and David, who wrote the lead |
0:45.7 | article in the Atlantic Monthly Year End issue, an entire issue, laying out all the horrible |
0:51.3 | consequences of a Trump presidency, |
0:54.0 | David here takes a slightly different tack in this one. |
0:58.0 | Not because he doesn't believe Trump is a disaster. |
1:02.0 | David is of the opinion now that many of the parade of horribles we all envision from a second |
1:08.6 | Trump administration won't happen because of the bureaucratic checks and balances within our system that just because |
1:16.2 | President Trump wants something to happen, he won't be able to get it done. This is, again, somewhat |
1:22.4 | at odds with the whole Atlantic monthly double issue, which lays out a nightmarish negative utopia. |
1:30.0 | David and I foresee Democrats taking back the House, which is so nakedly dysfunctional right now. |
1:38.0 | And David foresees difficulties getting the parade of horrible candidates who would be willing to take jobs in the second |
1:45.0 | administration getting them confirmed. |
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