The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 from Slated's Digestime,

Mike Pasca.

When Donald Trump was running for president,

he was often asked, hey, how did that speech you just gave

that fiery red meat speech or that aggressive

and dismissive debate performance?

How does that appeal to voters not already on the Trump train?

And before he gave his chilly and augural address,

chilly, cone carnage, in fact, it was said,

well, maybe I'll give a speech to unite the people behind him,

the president of all the people.

It's been 12 days, the answer is no,

but actually that was kind of a stupid question.

There's this theory of morality that says,

one should do the maximum good for the maximum number.

Jeremy Bentham called that utilitarianism,

but it runs against a prevailing theory of governance

when that George W. Bush embraced

because Carl Rove saw the wisdom in it.

He actually want to be narrowly elected

with the fewest number of constituencies

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