Luke Broadwater
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94 appearances
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3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 22 May
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Republicans have gone along with Donald Trump for so many things for so long, but this week they reached their breaking point.
What you're seeing is Donald Trump push an agenda that is widely unpopular on these issues.
It doesn't take a political scientist to tell you that in an election year, Republicans are going to want to position themselves as on the side of the everyman, on the working class person, and not on the side of people building luxury ballrooms.
And if you've already alienated those people, you've taken away any incentive for them to want to do you a favor, then why would they vote for an unpopular item that's just going to hurt them?
It doesn't make sense.
I would never put it past Donald Trump to wield his power and influence once again over Republicans.
But what I am saying is that given the current incentives on the Hill and the way he's been treating people, he should not be surprised when he has some really rocky weeks in the Senate.
And finally, chapter one, the boy who lived.
I mean, in some ways, this was the real moment when the Democrats in the House embraced the Republican style of politics. Mm-hmm. During this Congress, the first Congress controlled by the MAGA movement, pretty much every Republican who got themselves on TV did so by emulating the style of Donald Trump.
And Democrats had always believed in Michelle Obama's axiom, which was when they go low, we go higher. And Jasmine Crockett clearly decided when they go low, we go lower and we're going to we're going to fight them down in the mud. And, you know, it sort of typified and exemplified everything that this Congress became. And that is dysfunctional ceding power to Trump.
really just fighting to fight to make viral moments.
Yeah. So I don't believe it has worked according to the election results. It seems that voters actually like the fisticuffs. They like Donald Trump's brand of politics. Certainly in these red districts, they like it. And this is a successful way to win primaries on the right is to be the loudest, the biggest fighter, the most extreme, that gives you a loyal, loving fan base on the right.
And so, you know, what we're seeing now in the Democratic Party is I think there's a desire among the populace for the Democrats to become more of the party of fighting and not the party that plays by, you know, Robert's rules and keeps things super professional.
Not like this. I mean, you're right. That was a striking revelation as well. We would often go back to people and ask them what happened in this room or that room, and Time after time, they would recount how somebody said something to them and they would say, you know, if you do that again, I'll knock you out or some other sort of threat.
And some of these were examples that played out on the House floor, you know. Eric Swalwell and Kevin McCarthy coming up to each other and using the P word. Right. You had Tim Burchett and Kevin McCarthy in the hallway.
Yeah. Oftentimes it's members of the same caucus even getting into it with each other. Obviously, we talked about Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene and why they hate each other so much. One thing that I learned in that scene with Jasmine Crockett in the oversight room is going back and reporting it later is that Lauren Boebert is actually the preferred Republican of the Democrats.
They see her as much easier to work with and actually she has friendships on the left. When her grandchild was born, Jamie Raskin of all people sent her a baby gift that said, I may take a lot of naps, but I'm still woke.
Trevor Burrus, Jr. : And people feel that Schumer is out of step with the moment. You know, he sat for us for the book and he told us, these are his words, that once the Republican Party removes the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican Party. And he described Donald Trump as being sort of an evil sorcerer in his words.
that had sort of cast a spell over Republicans and Republican voters. And what we really discovered reporting this book out is that every member of the House Republicans that we talked to had embraced the MAGA movement and made it their own. It was not solely the function of Donald Trump anymore. And they had taken it in some way
some instances even further to the right than where Donald Trump is with MAGA. And so, you know, our belief is, having done all these interviews, that MAGA will exist long after Donald Trump leaves the political scene.
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