The Trump Paradox
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 19 January 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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With government shutdown looming over Washington, the G.O.P. finds itself once again mired in intra-party conflicts. Despite its struggles with basic governance, Republicans have begun to achieve many of their long-standing goals. John Cassidy joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how they're succeeding and where they're most vulnerable.
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| 0:48.7 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, January |
| 0:55.9 | 19th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. For the fourth time since October, |
| 1:03.3 | the country is facing a government shutdown. The Republican Congress has again failed to reach a |
| 1:08.3 | compromise with Democrats on the budget for 2018. Yet, despite |
| 1:12.8 | these struggles with basic governance, the Republican Party has made significant progress on achieving |
| 1:18.2 | its longstanding goals, including tax reform, anti-regulatory reforms, and legislation designed |
| 1:25.6 | to destabilize the Affordable Care Act. |
| 1:28.3 | In an interview with C-SPAN last week, Paul Ryan had this to say. |
| 1:33.3 | What I'm excited about, we ran on a very specific agenda in 2016, and we came around, we all |
| 1:41.3 | got consensus on what that agenda, we call it the better way. And now we're in the |
| 1:45.3 | middle of executing. John Cassidy joins me to discuss what the administration and the Republican |
| 1:50.9 | Congress are accomplishing amid the chaos. Hi, John. Hi, Dorothy. Trump will be celebrating |
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