This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York.

On today's show, leaving the Republican Party behind, why one famous conservative stalwart

now believes the GOP must be destroyed for good.

It's a lost cause and so my hope is that the Republican Party will suffer massive and repeated

drubings at the ballot box.

That epiphany and something of an apology from the best-selling

author and intellectual Max Boot. I think you need to punish the Republicans for taking

these appalling you know know, positions.

In conversation with Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn.

All these people that I knew and respected have had their brains sucked out and

replaced with Trumpian mush.

That's coming up on the Mother Jones podcast.

As you know, politics is hopelessly tribal.

As you know, the stakes in November shockingly high.

Our midterm countdown continues today with a fascinating conversation about political conversion.

Max Boot says the conservative movement is disfigured beyond recognition.

And then the moment that really, you know, led me to realize the Republican Party was

doomed was in the spring when he locked up the Republican nomination and

Republican after Republican who had called him a loony tune on principled, unfit

etceter endorsed him. Wow, what is going on here? How can I be part of the same party as these people?

They are so unprincipled, so craven, so cowardly, so opportunistic.

In his new book, The Corrosion of Conservatism, why I left the right, out next week, the Washington Post writer

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