Mara Liason

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262 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 6d ago

Mara Liason’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The NPR Politics Podcast · The young conservative movement post-Charlie Kirk · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

A Reuters poll taken in August showed that men, 18 to 29, their support for Trump was down 11 points from February a year ago. voice-verified

formed the key critique of the left on the part of Charlie Kirk, on the part of other conservatives, that there was kind of language police. voice-verified

And you were – it was cancel culture and you weren't allowed to say what you thought. voice-verified

But after Charlie Kirk's death, there was a kind of free speech for me but not for thee because there were people who got fired from their jobs for criticizing what Charlie Kirk said when he was alive. voice-verified

I think to a certain extent, they will do that with young white men. voice-verified

I think that voice-verified

that's a pretty fertile ground for them to plow. voice-verified

I think it'll depend on things that are much bigger than these cultural issues, like the economy. voice-verified

It turns out that young voters are kind of like all voters, and voice-verified

care about whether they can afford a house and maybe take a vacation. voice-verified

If they're married with young kids, they want to think about being able to pay for their college. voice-verified

So yeah, I think they can. voice-verified

The interesting thing is who will pick up the Kirk mantle? voice-verified

Is there another person like J.D. voice-verified

Vance, another young Republican who can excite them in the way that Kirk did? voice-verified

I don't know if that's possible, but I do think that the White House has mystified a lot of Republicans with deciding to compete with Kirk's commemorations rather than just let Kirk have his own day and then have the convention on another night. voice-verified

You know, if we're talking about the post-Trump world, the big question is, can there be somebody else on the Republican side who will have a cult of personality like voice-verified

did? voice-verified

Joe Biden never had a cult of personality. voice-verified

Totally. voice-verified

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