Barry Weiss
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976 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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Since your predecessor, John Boehner, was pushed out of the speakership in 2015, then we had Paul Ryan, then we had Kevin McCarthy. It's a lot of drama and a lot of chaos. You look at the other side of the aisle, and Nancy Pelosi was able to run things with an iron fist. What is it about Republicans that make them so ungovernable or hard to harness?
So as someone that's trying to manage a team of disagreeable misfits myself, what advice do you have for me?
Well, let's talk about some of the others that you're referring to there. You've sort of obliquely referred to some of the show ponies in your party. And it's no secret that certain people, I'm thinking of Chip Roy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Thomas Massey, they are, let's just say, the challenging wing of the party. How do you manage that group?
I don't even know how they would identify themselves at this point. But they have brought down other speakers before you, they and similar figures. How do you manage them? And frankly, and if there's a way to characterize that group, what do they want?
You were elected speaker despite the obstinance of some in the more right-wing wing of your caucus, yet you got Donald Trump's support. Why do you think he supported you?
You told The New Yorker that you're the first genuinely pro-Trump Republican congressional leader. What does that say about Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell?
Those new voters that you referenced, and people have paid a lot of attention, especially to the minority vote and minority men that are going for Trump, reaction against Biden and the, I don't even know how to characterize it, the dysfunction of a lot of the past four years or genuine enthusiasm for Trump?
This vibe shift, right? Mark Zuckerberg going on Joe Rogan, getting rid of tampons in the men's bathrooms at Facebook, getting rid of DEI, unraveling it. Genuine change of heart or opportunism that you're seeing from a lot of these tech people?
So do you think that someone like Mark Zuckerberg, I know you can't see into his heart, but do you think the people that, maybe you can, do you think that those people were sort of privately red-pilled and now feel like they have the cover to come out and be public about it?
Who was around the table?
But this is before he came out publicly.
But then they also believe in economic protectionism and tariffs at the same time. Well, let's just get, like, to me, the core tension right now in the GOP is its identity. What is it, right? Is it populist or is it free market? Is it about the collective, a kind of Oren Kassian vision, or is it about total freedom for the individual? Is it more libertarian or not?
And obviously, this has been typified or, you know, personified in the person of Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, which kind of represent these two new wings of the party. Do you see it that way? And how do you maintain a big tent big enough to have genuinely conflicting visions of what the modern Republican Party ought to be about?
Let's work on the title.
I can help you with that.
Well, I know how to do that if we're talking about Reagan era conservatism.
Free people, free markets.
Okay, but square that for me with Trump saying the most beautiful word in the English language is tariff.
And let's just hear more of this Trump impersonation.
You're better than Shane Gillis, come on.
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