Buckley Carlson
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1,967 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Buckley Carlson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was corresponding with Stephen Miller and writing some early speeches for Trump.
Maybe it was because I had actually worked in Washington for so long.
I hadn't been born in Washington, but I moved there as a teenager, and then had worked in politics, elected politics, and then corporate America.
but very much adjacent to political world and worked with pollsters and people who message tested.
And I had worked closely with the Republican coalition when they got back in power in 94.
And I saw to the extent that people were phony.
There was a huge disconnect between their personal lives and how they voted and how they campaigned.
Gay.
And gay.
Super gay.
Yes.
And very much in our party, which I was surprised by because the left was always crazy and they were always sort of attracted to these people.
At least they were open about it, the Bernie Franks of the world.
Yeah, yeah, no, totally.
Their weird lifestyles.
But the Republican Party was completely empty.
And I had also lived through— Empty, what do you mean?
they had no principles that they were willing to stand up for.
And I had seen probably the starkest example was John McCain, who I had grown up really respecting was at a time in America when people actually celebrated war heroes.
I thought he was a war hero at that time.
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