We Need to Talk About Kevin

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Republicans, especially Donald Trump, hoped the pendulum would swing in their favor on election night, without penalizing their party for its extremism and the Big Lie. Instead the results kind of blew up their plans, such as they were. Now, with a growing realization that Trump is making their party non-viable, Republicans find themselves at a crossroads. Who are their party leaders? What’s their basic character? What policy agenda do they even have, if any? Unfortunately for us, what’s left of the national GOP is a group of people who’ve been selected for their willingness to set aside right and wrong in order to make Donald Trump happy. Mark Leibovich wrote a book about that called Thank You for Your Servitude, during which he got to know just how deep the servitude runs in each of the people who will soon gain power in Washington. Mark joins host Brian Beutler to discuss how those people might grapple with these dilemmas, and what will happen when their decisions, forged in the Fox News cinematic universe, meet reality.

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1:37.9	Hi everyone, welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boyler. We know Republicans
1:43.4	biffed the midterms. We talked about all of that and the significance of it, with Jamal Bui last
1:48.1	week. But they only really lost by the weird rules of politics and I guess golf, where questions of
1:56.0	winner-lose are answered relative to expectations. In a purely objective sense, ignoring everything
2:02.5	that happened before November 8th, the midterms were basically a tie. Democrats won big in some
2:07.5	places, Republicans and others. Democrats will keep and maybe grow their Senate majority,
2:12.6	but, and it's a big but, Republicans won control of the house. Or at least by the time you listen
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