"The Doom Loop of Crazy." w/Charlie Sykes
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Charlie Sykes has a lot to say about today's GOP. None of it good. And he's right. Sykes, a former conservative talk radio host, is an MSNBC contributor and columnist. He founded the news site, TheBulwark.com. Bill highly recommends it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and our deep dive today with Charlie Sykes, founder and editor-in-chief of the website The Bullwark. |
| 0:17.1 | Well, we're six months into the Biden presidency now, but if you thought everybody would have |
| 0:21.6 | accepted that reality, you're mistaken. |
| 0:25.6 | Donald Trump was back on the campaign trail last weekend, still insisting that he and not |
| 0:30.6 | Joe Biden won the 2020 election, which he calls the crime of the century. |
| 0:36.6 | He still believes that unofficial recounts underway in Arizona and Georgia |
| 0:41.3 | will result in Biden's victory being overturned, |
| 0:44.3 | and according to the National Review, get this, |
| 0:48.3 | Trump is assuring supporters that he'll be back in the Oval Office |
| 0:52.3 | fully reinstated as president by August. |
| 0:57.6 | What the hell's going on? And why do so many Republicans buy into this crap? |
| 1:04.2 | We visit today with one former Republican who's not buying that crap and is in fact urging fellow conservatives to dump Trump |
| 1:13.1 | and get back to debating ideas and issues like they used to. Former conservative talk show host |
| 1:20.7 | Charlie Sykes is editor-in-chief of the bulwark and a frequent contributor to MSNBC. |
| 1:27.2 | Hi, Charlie, it's good to have you back on the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:29.5 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:30.8 | Hey, thanks for having me back. |
| 1:32.5 | So you're back, and Donald Trump is back Saturday night in North Carolina, out of exile in Bedminster, |
| 1:41.9 | with a whole new, hopeful, futuristic message for the Republican Party, right? |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, as if. |
| 1:51.4 | Kind of a low-energy speech, but he's still pretty clear that this guy is not letting go, |
| 1:57.7 | and he's going to continue to push various versions of the big lie. |
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