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The Bulwark Podcast

Will Saletan: Nice Little Democracy You Got There

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Trump hosted a Q extravaganza, DeSantis won't let anyone else be more cruel than him, Lindsey keeps pushing his abortion ban pitch, and the risk of polling errors. 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

Welcome to the Bullwark Podcast. It is Monday. I am Charlie Sykes. He is Will Salitan. And of course,

0:14.8

we're both taking a break from watching the Queen's funeral. My wife's been up since I think 330

0:19.6

watching the Queen's funeral. It is interesting. I don't know. Well, anyway, first of all, happy Monday

0:24.4

will. Thank you, Charlie. It is this bizarre kind of split screen where you're watching all of this

0:29.3

dignity and tradition in Britain. And I'm not necessarily a royalist, but watching all that

0:34.8

in the split screen of American Democratic carnage in downtown. I'm not going to suggest that we

0:42.8

rethink that whole independence thing. The experiment is not looking great today. It's all I can say.

0:51.9

It's really funny because last night I finally, I do everything years late. I just finally got to

0:56.4

see Hamilton the show. And so there's all this stuff in there. Obviously, that King George,

1:00.8

Taunting America saying you'll be back. It is really relevant. No. Well, hey, congratulations,

1:08.1

catching up on Hamilton. I think that's a great show. Okay. So I know that people would like to

1:14.0

start off on a Monday with a porridge, but I think we have to give them the spinach today. A little

1:19.9

bit. Actually, it's more like an e-medic. Stop me if you've heard this before, but Donald Trump's

1:27.2

rally over the weekend was just pure undeluted craziness. And I write this morning, this storm

1:35.6

is coming for people who are like, oh, how bad could it be? Or he's done all the damage he could

1:42.5

possibly do, right? Or if we just ignore his mean tweets. So here you have Trump

1:49.8

retruthing. He doesn't retweet. He's not on Twitter. He retrueths an image of himself with his

1:55.4

QAnon slogan. The storm is coming for the picture of himself actually wearing a Q button. Now,

2:01.5

I know that people will say, okay, he's just trolling us and all of that. But then there's

2:06.2

a rallies and the fingers salutes and the music. The AP story captures this. After winking a QAnon

2:13.2

for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number

2:18.8

of frightening real world events linked to it grows. New York Times tweeted out, Donald Trump appeared

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