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The Bulwark Podcast

Tom Nichols: The Cult Around the Sad Boy from Queens

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Trump has embraced the culture war on guns and abortion, but he is somehow being painted as a moderate again. Meanwhile, Giuliani and Abbott served up fresh reminders that MAGA thinks law and order doesn't apply to them. And today's authoritarians aren't anti-elite—it's just that the wrong elites are in charge. Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller.

show notes:

Tom's piece about Carla, the cat

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, a little bit of housekeeping.

0:01.5

Wanna make sure you know about our weekend offerings.

0:03.6

Over on Bullwork goes to Hollywood on Saturdays.

0:06.8

Sunny Bunch interviews, people, in the movie business.

0:09.9

But this week, there's one that's very relevant to listeners of this podcast he talks to the

0:13.3

director of the documentary the sixth which I really recommend it takes a different

0:18.0

look at the attack focusing on six stories from that day and I think highlights the scale of the threat that we faced

0:24.7

really recommend going to check that out. Also I'm on the focus group

0:28.6

podcast which comes out every Saturday with Sarah. We talk about what's

0:32.1

happening with the youth. I don't know if you've

0:35.2

if you've given a try to check out the focus group podcast to listen to the people. But I just want to say I

0:40.4

think it's a super important part of what we do here at the Bulwark

0:42.8

a super important part of our mission allows us to kind of get out of our bubbles

0:46.4

and make sure we're listening to people in different demographic groups you know this

0:50.0

week we're talking to the youth but Sarah's out there talking to MAGA voter she's talking to

0:53.7

black voters talking to lefty progressive swing voters and so I highly recommend the focus

0:58.8

group podcast out every Saturday this week you can hear me but she's got better guests than me other weeks

1:04.0

lastly yeah I'm sad today okay congratulations to Darla any other Minnesota

1:09.7

St Paul Twin Cities folks out there, good on you.

1:13.0

I'm not ready to take shit talk yet, I'm not ready for that.

1:16.0

But life goes on, good luck to our friends in Minnesota and Dallas.

1:20.5

And you know, it's just sports. It's just sports got we got real business to get to so up next friend

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