Sarah Longwell
speaker
609 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 29 Jan
Sarah Longwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But I think that we underestimated how much Trump was able to pump into politics.
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The bloodstream, I also think we were underestimating sort of his celebrity, how much of the circus people found funny, how much when things that would have damaged normal politicians like the Access Hollywood tape didn't even lay a glove on him because of the celebrity, because he was always tawdry, because he was always living in the tabloids.
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And I think we just overestimated this, not the sophistication, but the level at which voters would sort of either dismiss that stuff or like...
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like the negative stuff, and versus how much it actually brought an entirely new group of people into the political system who were there for the circus and the grossness and the tabloid elements of it.
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And he ran circles around us on that front, ultimately.
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And in retrospect, you can look back and say,
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And now because now he does it with Fox News.
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Right now, you go you look at January 6th.
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It's like he graduated what he was doing with the Inquirer.
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He had developed a skill of dictating to media companies coverage and how they did things.
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Like when you see the texting around January 6th, the way Laura Ingram and what's his name?
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You know, how?
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These guys were advisors to Trump.
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They were in constant communication with him and his family.
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And so this is how Trump's always operated, and it is not normally how politicians operate.
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I guess.
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I mean, I'm not I'm not an expert.
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Yeah, I'm just not an expert in legal strategy.
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I will say I'm going to make a broader macro political point that I've been thinking about, which is, you know, obviously, Trump is really he has these Teflon on sort of nobody thinks of him as a sexually moral character.
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Right.
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