WTF Happened to Lindsey Graham?
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Bulwark’s Will Saletan has a new long article/short book entitled: The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham: A case study in the rise of authoritarianism. This is a very important and well-written and reported story that charts the fall of Graham from severe Trump critic to Trump enabler. He says it was a slow process for Graham and mirrors how a society descends into authoritarianism, one small step at a time. And before we realize what is happening it could be too late. The piece debunks the idea that “It can’t happen here.” Here is the link to the Kindle version and here is a link to the piece on The Bulwark website.
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| 1:05.6 | Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod and thank you for joining us. |
| 1:10.8 | Well, you know, for the last two years or more, wherever I go in this country, there are two questions I know I'm going to be asked, more than any others. First, what the hell happened to Tucker Carlson? |
| 1:18.7 | Second, what the hell happened to Lindsay Graham? To which I usually answer, damn, I don't know. |
| 1:25.6 | But today, thanks to the bulwarks Will Salatin, we have the answer to damn, I don't know. But today, thanks to the bulwarks, Will Salatin, we have the answer to |
| 1:30.4 | at least one of those questions. Will's written an important new book available on Kindle called |
| 1:36.2 | The Corruption of Lindsay Graham, which documents how Graham transitioned from Trump Arch Critic |
| 1:42.5 | to Trump sycophant. But it's more than that. As the |
| 1:47.2 | subtitle says, Salatin also paints Lindsay Graham as, quote, a case study in the rise of authoritarianism |
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