Tim O'Brien: He Will Burn It All Down
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
4.6 • 8.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the BowenBranch Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes. It is Thursday, and as I said in my |
| 0:37.9 | newsletter this morning, warnings against irrational exuberance are very much in order, but happy |
| 0:42.9 | Shadenfreude Week for all who celebrate. And of course, to figure out what's going on down in |
| 0:49.2 | Mara Lago, what's going on in the Murdoch Empire, what's going on in the temporarily sobered |
| 0:54.8 | Republican Party. We're going back to our A-list, Tim O'Brien, Senior Executive Editor of Bloomberg |
| 1:01.2 | Opinion, and somebody who goes, how many years you go back with Donald Trump, 2030? |
| 1:07.6 | To 1990. So no wonder the math there. Yeah, 32 years. Tim is the author of Trump Nation, the art |
| 1:16.4 | of being the Donald. Well, this is an interesting moment for the man who has built his entire |
| 1:23.2 | brand about being a big winner. Winning so much, you're just going to get tired of winning. |
| 1:29.8 | Well, let's set the table here. Here's Maggie Haberman, who is another close Trump |
| 1:35.4 | observer talking about Trump in the wake of the underwhelming non-red wave election. |
| 1:43.2 | This is Maggie Haberman on CNN. We're at a real inflection point. Clearly, the elites in the party |
| 1:48.0 | are done with Trump. We only have to look at this to know just where the elites in the GOPR. |
| 1:53.2 | That doesn't necessarily mean it translates to the base. And so I think we are going to see. |
| 1:56.9 | I think Trump is at his most vulnerable, then he has been since January 6th, but whether |
| 2:02.2 | somebody moves forward against him will say what? I keep points there. There's always a difference |
| 2:07.2 | between the elites, the people who write editorials for the Wall Street Journal and who were on the |
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