Jonathan V. Last

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2,498 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5d ago

Jonathan V. Last’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bulwark Daily · Jonathan V. Last and Robert Kagan: Marco and Miller Go Full Fascist · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

This was new in American political life, to have a guy who was a mainstream presidential candidate for one of the two major parties out there, not in a one-time thing, but over and over, voice-verified

egging people on and celebrating political violence and calling for it. voice-verified

Then once he's elected president, talking and trying to, you know, alibi the people at the Charlottesville rally where Heather Heyer was killed. voice-verified

And then when he loses the election, he summons a mob voice-verified

to Washington, D.C. voice-verified

We know from all the testimony from the January 6th committee, he's giving his speech, and he knows before the speech that there are armed people, because the Secret Service tells him, like, there are people out there with weapons. voice-verified

And he's like, don't worry about it. voice-verified

They're not here for me. voice-verified

And he then directs these people to march on the Capitol, to take their country back with strength, etc., etc., voice-verified

Like, this is the secret sauce, isn't it? voice-verified

Donald Trump offered Republican voters something that no politician had ever offered before. voice-verified

And what he offered them was political violence. voice-verified

And my thesis is that that is what a critical mass of them responded to. voice-verified

Not all Republicans, not all Republican voters, but for some significant percentage, the political violence, the sanctioning of it became the thing that excited them and activated them and not the thing that they had to look past because they wanted a tax cut. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And one of the less appreciated aspects of political violence, I think, is that in history shows this. voice-verified

God, you just look at Europe in the 30s. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

Once once it starts, you can't control it. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

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