Welcome to Beg to

Beg to Differ. The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable

discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark and I am joined

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution,

and the Wall Street Journal, Linda Chavez of the Niskanan Center, and Damon Linker, who writes

the sub-stack newsletter, Eyes on the Right.

Our special guest this week is Sarah Longwell,

the distinguished publisher of the Bullwork.

And what a difference 24 hours make.

The midterms are, of course, the big story this week.

I have to say I was kind of gobsmacked by the results.

Honestly, there's so much to discuss

that it makes my job easy.

I'm going to ask all of you for your reactions.

And I want to start with Sarah.

Sarah, what about the fate of some of the worst

Republican candidates that Trump had backed?

Yeah, guys, good day for democracy. It's not over yet. There's still a long way to go. I heard around the

the bulwark, you know, block that it was positively funereal over here on Beg to Differ last week.

But I got to tell you over on the focus group pod

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