The MAGA Train Rolls in One Direction

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Host Reed Galen shares his reaction to the past week of news and gives his thoughts on the debt ceiling, the GOP field for 2024, and the warped definition of masculinity that those like Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Tucker Carlson continue to push. Plus, questions from the audience about GOP extremism, the dangers of a third party, and how to prevent further weaponization of the debt ceiling. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Reid. Before we get started, I just want to say thank you to every one of you who
0:04.8	listens. The Lincoln Project Podcast won a TELLY award this year and it is because of you
0:11.6	and your devoted listening to this program into our mission. I cannot say thank you enough,
0:17.0	but I will ask one more favor. If you like what you hear, share it with your friends and your
0:22.1	family and your colleagues, rate it five stars and make sure that you keep on listening gang. We've
0:27.5	got 18 months to the next finish line and we'll do it together. And now on with the show.
0:41.6	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Gailan. Today, I'm coming to you all
0:47.2	solo because it's been a very busy week and we need to talk about it. I want to talk about the
0:51.7	Deadsealing, the GOP field for 2024 and answer a question or two from you all, the listeners.
0:57.8	But before we get into that, I just want to say thank you so much for the incredible feedback we
1:02.8	got on our mini-series on the rise of American extremism. The feedback has been fabulous,
1:08.6	so appreciate you all tuning in. If you like what you've heard, please share it with your friends.
1:13.8	If you haven't taken a chance to listen to our episodes with David Nywerk,
1:18.8	Yale, Eisenstadt and Garrett Graff, please go ahead and do so. It's four terrific episodes there,
1:25.0	experts in their fields and I highly recommend you give it a listen. All right guys, let's talk about
1:29.9	a few things. I want to talk about the Deadsealing, but before we do that, I want to talk about something
1:34.8	that this guy Josh Hawley, he's a senator from Missouri. He wrote this book about American masculinity.
1:41.4	And I was struck by it because as you all know, a men of a certain age start to sort of look back
1:47.0	on things and the idea of a guy like Josh Hawley advising anybody on what it means to be masculine
1:54.1	or to be a man to oversimplify it is a little bit ridiculous. And I think about guys like Josh Hawley,
2:02.7	who claims to be as manly as he stands up and struts around in a two-tight black t-shirt.
2:07.9	He gives the fist pump to the January 6th protesters outside the Capitol, but when they invade
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