David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 19 Sep

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

There was just all of this talk of a red wave.

And then it never materialized.

And I put it into – I used two Ds to describe why it didn't materialize, Dobbs and doofuses.

Dobbs was obvious, right?

You know, as somebody who's pro-life, I regret this deeply, but there is very much a pro-choice majority in the United States.

It galvanized a pro-choice majority.

And then the Republicans nominated MAGA candidate after MAGA candidate in these statewide swing state elections and lost and lost and lost and lost in a very – what would have been a very favorable environment.

And I think that's instructive.

And so I really do –

question the way in which a lot of people seem to view donald trump and the unpopularity of donald trump as an opera as a political opportunity to sort of press in and lean in to deeper and deeper progressivism and and i just feel as if i'm sort of getting this sense of deja vu that you know i hate it when you do that

I'm getting that deja vu.

Can I propose something quasi-mathematical equation here?

The greater the power the public official exercises, the greater the obligation to disclose to the public their physical condition.

So at the very top of that is the president of the United States.

And I think we've now had a couple of presidencies, including this one, by the way, where you don't really feel that they're all that transparent about like what our, you know, what our president, what the truth is.

Yeah.

So we're approaching sort of Soviet levels of opacity here.

Is that the right word?

And you remember back, you know, Michelle, you might remember back in the days when a Soviet leader would get a cold.

And next thing you know, you had a new Soviet leader.

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