Jonathan V. Last
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2,498 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 22 Sep
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America can be restored to itself again.
I'd like to test that faith a little bit because another thing you said was we've been given a glimpse of if and when the American Republic fails, we now see exactly how it will.
Could you just unpack that for people briefly?
There is no vindictiveness.
That has been astonishing to me watching.
Republican senators who Trump has poll axed and they have seemed to have no spitefulness in them.
That's exactly right.
See, that's why I wonder if there's something psychological happening more than pecuniary here, because are they simply afraid of their voters?
Well, Lisa, I mean, Lisa Murkowski has spoken very openly about being afraid of her voters.
There was the Pete Mayer quote in The New York Times shortly after the January 6th impeachment vote, where he said that one of his colleagues had said to him, like, I can't vote to impeach this guy because I have a wife and kids.
They'll, you know, they'll threaten to blow up my house.
Yeah.
This does seem new.
I mean, maybe not new in the annals of American history, but certainly new in, like, my political lifetime.
you said that we, you see how this all fails, how it all falls apart.
Looking forward, do you think there are things that can be done to safeguard things?
Right.
So, you know, post Watergate, we have a bunch of reforms.
You've written about this a bunch.
We have the Presidential Records Act.
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