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Rational Security

"The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives (Revisited)" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

We're off this week for Thanksgiving, but we're bringing you back four years ago to reflect on the day after the 2016 election. What national security themes drove Donald Trump's supporters? What challenges did we anticipate Trump would face in forming a government? And what did we get right?

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

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0:28.1

Hey everybody we are off this week for Thanksgiving but we have brought you a special Thanksgiving treat. A special horror story. A spooky story. It has a happy ending.

0:37.0

That's right. We've proved right.

0:39.0

I'm sorry. This is like getting all the children together and, you know, playing for them, uh,

0:46.3

colligula or something.

0:48.3

I think it's like dinosaurs are extinct right and that's what makes them not so

0:55.2

scary and the fact that we know that this is all going to be over soon makes it

1:00.0

much less scary. Should we tell the listeners what they're about to listen to? We should. You are about to hear our

1:06.0

listeners. The very first episode we recorded the day after Donald Trump was elected in 2016.

1:15.0

I went back and listened to it.

1:17.0

It was pretty bleak, man.

1:19.0

It was grim, man.

1:20.0

My voice you can hear, like I, you know, that I haven't slept and may or may not have been crying. I know we were all so subdued but at the same time like I think we I think we got some stuff pretty right? We did. We raised a lot of questions that

1:34.9

remained with us in some cases like you know whether or not competency will

1:40.1

matter and be something that the president values.

1:43.0

We were very optimistic on that.

1:44.4

I think we were actually really optimistic.

1:46.8

I mean, yes, we told you so and got some low hanging fruit, but like, I don't know, we were

1:51.6

being pretty fair and generous if you ask me.

1:56.0

All I can say is you can listen to this knowing we all survived.

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