Happy Wednesday and welcome to the Bullwark podcast to the surprise of absolutely no one.

Donald Trump was able to pick off the crown jewel of his campaign of vengeance, defeating

Liz Cheney in her primary in Wyoming.

And we're going to take a deep dive into that and what it means and what happened.

But let's start with a remarkable concession speech, a non-concession concession speech,

a defiant concession speech.

And joining us today on the podcast to walk us through all of this is our good friend,

Tom Nichols, Professor Emeritus, Tom Nichols, staff writer at the Atlantic and author of

their Peacefield newsletter.

So welcome back on the podcast, Professor.

Thanks, Charlie.

Thanks for having me again.

Do you call your professor or Emeritus?

Tom usually works, especially now that I'm not working there anymore.

But Professor is an honorific title that no one has to use with me anymore.

Okay, so let's talk about Liz Cheney.

I think this is just a remarkable story.

The Muggle World is of course celebrating in the anti-anti-Trump world is trying to explain

well, that's not really because she stepped to Donald Trump.

It's because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But let's go to the tape.

We have five cuts from this and let's spend some time with this.

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