Trump's Most Dangerous Nominee

Beg to Differ with Mona Charen

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Noah Smith joins to discuss what Tulsi Gabbard could do to America, the other anti-qualified nominees, the Penny/Mangione cases, and what Syria should remind us of.

Highlights / Lowlights

Mona: Rupert Murdoch's Succession Fiasco, Clive Irving at Vanity Fair

Linda: Why Does Pete Hegseth Keep Talking About ‘Warfighters’? Elliot Ackerman at The Free Press.

Bill: His WSJ column: Save a Reagan Initiative From Musk and Ramaswamy

Damon: When Democracy’s Defenders Turn Into Its Gravediggers, Yascha Mounck

Noah makes his reasoned pitch as to why rabbits make excellent pets.

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1:05.4	Welcome to beg to differ, the bulw's weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across
1:12.2	the political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated
1:17.9	columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I am joined by our regulars, Damon Linker, who writes
1:24.1	the substack newsletter Notes from the Middle Ground, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal,
1:31.0	and Linda Chavez of the Niskanen Center.
1:34.3	Our special guest this week is economist Noah Smith,
1:37.3	who writes the substack newsletter, No Opinion, highly recommended.
1:43.3	All right, welcome one and all. Topic one, I want to talk about the
1:49.6	Trump nominees and about their various difficulties. And then I'd like to, if we can, please remind me to get back to the larger question about whether it would be best for the country if people could just get what Trump wants for them.
2:10.2	And that there's no opposition and that the Senate maybe even goes into recess and just says, fine, recess appoint them all.
2:20.1	We won't block you.
2:21.7	The voters deserve to get what they ask for.
2:25.3	But before getting to that, let's start with Pete Higsef, nominee for defense secretary.
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