WTH Extra! Trump Wins! Dany and Marc Discuss
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
For the first time since 1892, a former president has regained the office he lost. President. In a landslide victory, Donald Trump won an extremely diverse coalition worried about the state of America’s economy and southern border. The Democratic Party, meanwhile, lost ignominiously and will have some soul-searching to do in the wake of failed identity politics and attempts to cast Trump and his supporters as a threat to American ideals. Who are the voters that drove Trump to victory? How might Trump’s second term differ from his first? And what can American leaders on both sides do right now to unite the country?
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.4 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.5 | And I'm Mark Thiessen. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on is Donald Trump has won |
| 0:42.4 | in a landslide. He not only won an electoral college landslide. He won a popular vote landslide. |
| 0:49.6 | I mean, this was a decisive, complete, and total victory. |
| 0:55.3 | And it was historic. |
| 0:57.0 | The, as I said on Fox last night, the last president and only other president to do what he did was Grover Cleveland in 1892. |
| 1:07.9 | In 1888, Grover Cleveland lost the White House to Benjamin Harrison, and four years later |
| 1:14.3 | came back to beat Benjamin Harrison and take it back. The only other president ever to accomplish |
| 1:19.7 | that feat. So I said that Donald Trump is not only a once-in-a-generation political talent. He's a once-in-a-century political talent. |
| 1:30.7 | I mean, that is just a stunning, stunning, decisive win. And whether you love him or you hate him |
| 1:38.0 | or somewhere in between, you have to give kudos and credit to what he accomplished last night. |
| 1:43.7 | It is just a remarkable feat. |
| 1:46.4 | It is. And we did a little special interview with Matt Contenetti for the substack. And he was talking |
| 1:54.0 | about just the sort of overwhelming quality of this, you know, with a crossover from voters, black male voters, 25% Latinos, |
| 2:05.8 | taking them over the top. The one that Matt talked about, but the one that I selfishly watched, |
| 2:10.8 | you and I both live in the state of Virginia. You know, Virginia is not a purple state. |
| 2:15.0 | When I moved here, it was a purple state. Now, Virginia is a blue state. When we moved there, it was a purple state. Now, Virginia is a |
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