Was 2023 a Year of Denial?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The Washington Roundtable: For their final episode of 2023, the New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos search for a single word to encapsulate U.S. politics in 2023. It was a hard year to sum up: Donald Trump was criminally indicted four times; support for reproductive rights drove voters in elections across the country; and Republican primary hopefuls searched for solid footing in a crowded field. Glasser, Mayer, and Osnos explore the common threads in this year’s big political stories, and consider how a year full of surprises couldn’t prevent the most predictable political outcome of all: a likely Biden/Trump rematch in 2024.
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| 0:58.9 | What I want to know is how do you get allowed to run up debts of as much as $500 million |
| 1:05.4 | without somebody seeing something, especially when your assets are only $10 million. I don't think that you and I |
| 1:12.8 | could just go around writing checks for $400 million without somebody sort of saying no before we got to |
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| 1:33.1 | The lawyers, I mean, everybody who he's hired for everything, it looks like, is suing him. |
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