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Jonathan Chait

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
338 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Right.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Again, it's like all the stories are bad for him, right?

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

It's like he's pivoting to hockey.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

But like in a normal world, hockey would be the last thing you would want to talk about because his FBI director would be like on the verge of being fired.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

What makes it so amazing is,

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

is that traditionally the amnesia goes the other way.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

People falsely remember having voted for the winner.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

This is a well-established fact in polling.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

So it's not the level 4% is low, but it's the direction that's so surprising.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

People usually claim to have voted for the winner and not to have voted for the loser.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

So I'm not sure that's ever happened before.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Do you remember before the Iraq โ€“ or during the Iraq War โ€“ sorry, the Gulf War in 1990, the first Iraq War, going all the way back.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

This is โ€“ you're a pretty young man.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

I don't remember that.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Saddam Hussein launched missiles at Israel hoping to draw Israel into the war so he could rally Arab states to his side after he had invaded Kuwait.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

So we're sort of trying the Saddam strategy here.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

Oh, so we're in the role of Saddam.

The Bulwark Podcast
Jonathan Chait: The World's Worst People

We're the Saddam.