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We Have Six Months to Crush Trump. Here's the Playbook. | Bulwark on Sunday

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In a special pre-recorded edition of Bulwark on Sunday, Bill Kristol and Sarah Longwell discuss the Virginia redistricting shock, the fight for the 2026 Senate map, Trump’s falling approval numbers, and why Democrats have a much bigger opening than they realize. They also talk about inflation, tariffs, the Iran war’s effect on gas prices, Trump voter backlash, and why Democrats need to stop panicking and start campaigning like they’re trying to win power back.

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1:46.1

Hi, Bill Crystal here. Welcome to bulwark on Sunday. Sarah Longel and I are actually doing this on Saturday,

1:51.1

so we can celebrate Mother's Day appropriately. Don't want to be accused of, you know,

1:55.2

disrupting a traditional American holiday by insisting on the bulwark on Sunday Live. So make an exception. We're going,

2:20.2

we're doing it a day early. Sarah, thanks for joining me on this Saturday. Yeah, thanks for having me. Let's get into it. Lots going on. Happy Mother's Day one day ahead of time. And, Mother's Day is a big, it's a real big holiday in our house because there's two of us. And so, you know, it's like the, it's the high holiday of our house.

2:17.9

That's nice. That's very charming. A lot of news this

2:23.2

past week, you and Sam Stein discussed on Friday the redistricting, the opinion of the Virginia

2:28.2

Supreme Court on redistricting and certain amount of defeatism, I'd say, coming from, or a lot of hand-rigbreaking from Democrats, understandable, I suppose, and a little bit of defeatism from some on the left, but you've got strong feelings about this, and I have some thoughts, too. So what should people, what do we do? What do we do this May, here we are on May 10th, what's the situation? Look, first of all, this decision is a real, it's just a gut punch from an actual, you know,

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