Will Saletan: Gelded by the Nutcase Caucus

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Last Tuesday destroyed Kevin McCarthy — he will be either defeated or humiliated. Meanwhile, Republicans may be figuring out that Trump is electoral poison, and they can't win with him or without him. Will Saletan is back with Charlie Sykes for Charlie and Will Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Monday and welcome to the Bullwark Podcast.
0:10.5	I am Charlie Sykes, joined by my colleague Will Salitan.
0:14.6	Happy Monday Will.
0:15.6	Thank you, Charlie.
0:16.6	And it is a happy Monday.
0:17.6	It has been so long.
0:18.6	I feel like there's so much that has happened since we've done this podcast.
0:21.8	Certainly a lot.
0:22.8	It's happened since you and I did the podcast last Monday.
0:26.7	So what was the most surprising thing that happened in the last seven days?
0:30.2	Okay, go.
0:31.6	The election turned out better than I expected.
0:34.7	Well, I can't get in.
0:35.7	So look, Charlie, I am a weird person.
0:38.5	I am an optimist.
0:39.5	As you know, I'm a poly-NI.
0:40.5	I always think things will turn out better than they actually will.
0:43.6	And this is the first election I can remember where I way, way underestimated how things
0:49.3	would go.
0:50.3	So I am discovering what it is like to be, I guess like you, to be a pessimist and to
0:55.1	be pleasantly surprised.
0:57.5	I am just baffled by this universe we're living in, in which Democrats did much better
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