Welcome to Big D

BEG to DIFER, the Bulwerks 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 of the Bullwork and I'm joined by our regulars

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal,

Damon Linker of the Week, and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

Our special guest this week is the Atlantic's David from, whose most recent book is Trump

Eclipse. And we are going to address a number of things in the news today.

We're going to get to the raging debate on the right about what to do about the prospect of a second Trump term.

Should we unite behind someone else or some other course of action?

But first, I would like to begin with the Democrats and the lesson of the

2021 elections. It is a remarkable thing in America when a New York Times

editorial says things like this, I New York Times.

This is the New York Times.

Democrats lost there even with a long time moderate as their candidate for governor

because the party has become distracted from

crucial issues like the economy inflation ending the coronavirus pandemic

and restoring normalcy in schools and isn't offering moderate unifying solutions to them.

And that was one quote, here is one more.

The concerns of more centrist Americans about a rush to spend taxpayer money,

a rush to grow the government, should not be dismissed. So David Frum you as amazed as I am that the New York Times of all

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