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Happy Monday and welcome to the Bullwark Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes and because it is Monday,

I'm joined by my colleague Will Salatan. Will, do you have a good weekend?

I did, Charlie. We've reached that ritual moment every four years when the United States

is knocked out of the World Cup. So we're just going to have to get on with our life

and back to the sports that people like Charlie Sykes care about.

Well I have to say that the most important game of the year, particularly when they're

not going to be any playoff games, is when the Green Bay Packers play the Chicago Bears.

And so it is, it is sweet. It's been a terrible season. It's been awful. My soul has been

crushed time and time again. But watching the Packers come back against the Bears, it is

sweet. And don't forget against the Cowboys, so you've enjoyed the suffering of others.

Well, we just have to start here. Okay, can I just read you the beginning of my newsletter

this morning? I don't usually do this, but this is what I want to talk about. Despite

the evidence of the contrary, we are not in fact living through an alternative reality simulation.

This all actually happened. This is real life. In the last two weeks, Donald Trump put

out a video pledging solidarity with the January 6th rioters, dined with two Holocaust

denying fans of Adolf Hitler and called for the termination of the Constitution so that

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