Episodios

  • Dave Weigel: Now That's a Landslide

    Dave Weigel: Now That's a Landslide
    Nov 5 2025
    The huge Democratic wins in Virginia, New Jersey, NYC, and California spoke loud and clear—and make Trump’s 2024 supposed ‘landslide’ margin of 1.5% look even more wimpy. Trump is not delivering on his economic promises and the backlash was across the board. Voters are also rejecting the overreach of Stephen Miller’s nativist immigration policy, particularly Latino voters. One of the biggest impacts from Tuesday’s election is that redistricting suddenly looks like it favors the Dems. Plus, what Mamdani could teach Democrats, and the bad place the Republicans put the party in by focusing on Trump’s random obsessions instead of talking about the concerns of voters.

    Semafor’s Dave Weigel joins Tim Miller.
    show notes

    • Dave’s election reaction piece
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    1 h y 5 m
  • Andy Beshear and Terry Moran: The Power of Normal People

    Andy Beshear and Terry Moran: The Power of Normal People
    Nov 4 2025
    With Trump slashing SNAP benefits, Gov. Beshear is asking the people of Kentucky to look out for their neighbors so they don't go hungry—since the administration won't. Meanwhile, Trump's tariffs are hammering farmers in the Bluegrass State at the same time Republicans are sabotaging rural healthcare. And reporting from Chicago, Moran finds his hometown still full of tough, independent people who won't be pushed around. True to form: Moms, bystanders, and priests are standing up to immigration agents while Trump tries to flex the full force of his authoritarian ambitions. Plus, Norah O'Donnell did not stand up for the truth, and the legacy and patriotism of Dick Cheney.

    Gov. Andy Beshear and Terry Moran join Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • The Bulwark's Special Election Night Coverage at 8ET
    • Bill and JVL on the legacy of Dick Cheney
    • Terry's Substack
    • Terry's recent reporting from Chicago
    • Andrew's recent interview with Iowa's Rob Sand
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    1 h y 14 m
  • Bill Kristol: Fake News on '60 Minutes'

    Bill Kristol: Fake News on '60 Minutes'
    Nov 3 2025
    CBS News heavily edited its ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump, not only removing his lies about 2020, but also conveniently cutting the part about how the news show paid him off for his bogus lawsuit over a Kamala interview last year. That payoff may well have been how the one-time legendary news network landed a 90-minute interview with Trump to begin with. Meanwhile, the ‘peace’ president is conducting an illegal war in the Caribbean, and also happens to know nothing about the crypto magnate he just pardoned—even though he’s funneling billions to the Trump family’s crypto venture. Plus, Dems are definitely united in wanting the party to show some cojones, Republicans are trying some rage bait against Mamdani, and the ‘strong’ president who won a ‘big’ mandate has not been invited to campaign the night before tomorrow’s elections.

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Bill's "Bulwark on Sunday" with Ryan Goodman
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    59 m
  • Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?

    Catherine Rampell: Who Are the Socialists Now?
    Oct 31 2025
    It’s hard to find a better example of seizing the means of production than our government seizing an equity stake in a company—which Trump keeps doing over and over again. And what do the diehard Republican capitalists have to say about all this socializing of the private sector? Nothing, of course. But they definitely were up in arms over Bill Kristol saying he’d probably vote for Mamdani if he still lived in NYC, and that voting for Cuomo was ridiculous. Plus, the crypto-based bribery of Trump and his family is flourishing, SNAP cuts and Head Start closures will have a big impact on rural areas, businesses have been trying to find ways to lower their tariff burden since Trump won last November, and the potential ties between recent layoffs and the AI arms race.

    The Bulwark’s Catherine Rampell joins Tim Miller for the Halloween weekend pod.
    show notes

    • Tim's playlist

    • Tim's Halloween playlist
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  • Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurt Farmers

    Heidi Heitkamp: How Trump’s Trade Chaos Hurt Farmers
    Oct 30 2025
    President Trump meets with Xi Jinping and agrees to an embarrassingly one-sided trade deal, as the “China Hawks” in the administration cower. Meantime, the government shutdown moves to a more painful phase, with funding for SNAP expiring on Nov. 1. Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp joins Tim to discuss how the chaos from Trump’s trade wars has already hurt farmers, how Democrats should play their next moves on the shutdown, and her surprising support for Mamdani/Platner style candidates.

    show notes:

    • The One Country Project’s Hot Dish Podcast
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    56 m
  • Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll

    Abby Phillip: Governing by Troll
    Oct 29 2025
    From the jump, the administration has been all about the memes, owning the libs, and pissing people off. But Abby says she wants Trump’s supporters to have a chance to share their points of view on her show—and be challenged in real time. Meanwhile, during the weirdest shutdown ever, Republicans are at risk on SNAP and Obamacare subsidies. And policing the Caribbean and the Pacific to commit summary executions is not America First. Plus, the roots of Bernie Sanders’s populist campaigns were planted by Jesse Jackson’s runs for the presidency in ‘84 and ‘88. But Trump too also echoes Jackson as a political figure—through their use of celebrity, personality, and similar outsider populist messaging.

    Abby Phillip joins Tim Miller.

    show notes

    • Abby's book, "A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power"

    • CNN's NewsNight with Abby Phillip

    • Tim and Bill on Trump creepiest propaganda yet
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    54 m
  • Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?

    Sam Stein and Francis Fukuyama: A Coming Deportation Blitz?
    Oct 28 2025
    While the inhumane and aggressive tactics unfolding in Chicago are repelling many Americans, they are having the opposite effect among Trump's top aides. The Kristi Noem clique wants more— much more— of the Border Patrol's "Midway Blitz" around the country, and they're busy purging local ICE leadership in a number of cities in an attempt to dramatically ramp up the pace of deportations. Meanwhile, Trump keeps talking like he's all for regime change in Venezuela. Plus, how conspiracy and our phones helped fuel the rise of global populism, why the left and right yearn for a struggle in an age of peace and prosperity, and the modern effort to reclaim the word 'liberal.'

    Frank Fukuyama and Sam Stein join Tim Miller.

    show notes:

    • Adrian's recent reporting from Chicago
    • Isaac Chotiner's interview with Karine Jean-Pierre
    • Frank on Substack
    • Frank's "Liberalism and Its Discontents" and his "The End of History and the Last Man"
    • "Termination Shock," referenced by Frank
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    1 h y 23 m
  • Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum

    Bill Kristol: Diaper Tantrum
    Oct 27 2025
    Trump was so embarrassed by Canada using Reagan’s warnings about tariffs that he had a little hissy fit and decided to punish Americans for buying Canadian goods. And by the way, stuffed shirt Scott Bessent: Real American soybean farmers are being hurt by tariffs while you bail out Argentina and pretend that your dainty hands are tilling the soil on the farmland you bought as an investment. Meanwhile, the White House isn’t even pretending that it’s going after corrupt moneyed interests, as the Trump family rolls in dough from the most entrenched swampy types in DC. Plus, Dems get pressure on the shutdown and Trump weighs in on the VP gimmick for 2028.

    Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.
    show notes

    • Scott Bessent saying he's a soybean farmer

    • Monday's "Morning Shots"

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    51 m