The betrayal of Donald Trump to any individual or any cause is never a surprise.

That's a throughline for the man's entire life.

The important thing that is worth coming back to again and again is it's the people and as

followers and their betrayal because they actually know no better.

No better. Welcome to Begg to Differ,

the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion

featuring civil conversation across the

political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona

Charon's indicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork and I'm joined by Our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution

in the Wall Street Journal, Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter

notes from the middle ground, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannan Center.

Our special guest this week is the Atlantic's Peter Wainer

whose latest piece out this week is titled

Trump's evangelical supporters just lost their best excuse and we will come to that in our second segment

But first welcome one and all I am delighted to be back in the captain's chair here and want to thank

Andrew Egger for a great job subbing last week. Thank him very much and also

AB Stoddard for filling in at the last minute.

So I'd like to begin this week with something that I have to say was really, really notable.

The change in tone in the Democratic Party based on what we saw at that convention.

When Kamah Harris picked Tim Walls, a lot of people thought,

well, this is maybe her signal that she's sort of caving to the left or you know on the other hand

We on this podcast speculated that perhaps having done that she could then pivot to the center without fear of alienating

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