Welcome to Beg to Beg to Differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right. I'm guest host A. B. Stoddard columnist at the bul Bullwork and joining me are the usual round table

Damon Linker who publishes the sub-stack notes from the middle ground

Linda Chavez with the Niskannon Center Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution in the Wall Street Journal,

and joining us this week our colleague Jim Swift of the bulwark.

So guys, I thought that we were going to have a quiet news-free, rambling discussion of 2023 and

2024 in the political landscape, but something huge has fallen from the sky.

Nicky Haley in the free state of New Hampshire, of all places,

decided to step on her tongue and answer someone's question about the cause of the Civil War and really

really harm herself with her response. Her response was evasive and nervous it was not the usual

super polished calculated calibrated disciplined prepped and ready

nicky haly and it's so disciplined, prepped and ready, Nicky Haley, and its omissions were so intentional and so painful.

I hope some of our listeners, when they joined this podcast, have not even heard it yet because they've so tuned

out political news but it is important to hear her stumble through it. So I'm

and play that now.

Please, what was the cause of the United States Civil War?

Well, don't come with an easy question or anything.

I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run.

The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do.

What do you think the cause of the Civil War was?

I'm sorry?

I'm not by the President.

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