S.E. Cupp
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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Good. We're on record. We also want to solve this problem.
Mm-hmm.
The corrosion of the Republican Party and the place MAGA has pushed it into is one now where you have to reflexively... You don't have to, but... people believe that you have to reflexively defend the worst kinds of people to own the libs, to champion free speech.
Whatever it is, you have to, because it's not, it's the young Republicans, a group that helped bring me into a movement of conservatism with principles. It's, you know, Dana White and these other Trump acolytes
It's the vice president following these boys, and it's a ton of right-wing influencers giving them a moral pass and even saying, though they haven't been proven guilty, they've admitted to doing what we're saying that they're doing, as if there's some technicality so we can ignore all of that, is insane, but so reflective, so illustrative of how far
the Republican Party has devolved and in jettisoning all the principles, this is what's left. This is what they're moored to. I think more than anything else. I don't mean this like child predators. I mean, defending the indefensible is kind of what they're left with because the principles are gone. The things binding conservatives together inside the Republican Party, that's gone.
This is what they have.
And it's nihilism and it's... Personal grievances, right? Matt Gaetz is mad at Ron DeSantis. That's why he tweeted this. This has nothing to do with the Tates. Just like nothing has anything to do with morality or principles or even whether things are working. It's just personal grievances and what you can get from people.
I am pleased to see a lot of Republicans and sort of conservatives come out against the Tates. Saying unashamedly, you know, people on the far right in right-wing media saying unashamedly, these people are terrible. Stop defending them. I've seen more of that than I thought maybe I would.
And also, you should raise your own chickens if you want to lower the price of eggs.
Inner city? Who cares?
That's steel wiring, too. That's going to go up. But, yeah. I don't want to laugh about measles in 2025.
It's happened. This is heartbreaking and disgusting and preventable. And if this happens in numbers, we are no longer a first world country. Right? If we're dying, if our children are dying of diseases... We can prevent. Science has a tool for this. I don't know how we call ourselves a civil society. I don't know how we call ourselves a first world country. It's crazy.
I'm pleased at how quiet he's been, but that also makes me nervous. What's he doing in this? When we're all paying attention to Elon, what is he doing?
I challenge this premise a little bit. Please. MAGA hasn't built anything is true a bit, but he seems to be dismissing the, I mean, he is dismissing the online infrastructure. Yes. His indictment is that MAGA is just an online fan fiction kind of movement. And he's not wrong, but that is incredibly powerful.
And for everything that Democrats built, their grassroots and their young Democrats and their It has not made them a dominant force in American politics in a very long time. I mean, since Obama, I don't think Democrats have had a ton of persuasive power. I think he's right about identifying the nature of the MAGA movement, but that is powerful in itself. I would also say...
Whatever's going to replace Trumpism, the Republicans have not built yet. The Republicans haven't created that. And because, like I said, they've jettisoned the conservatism, the principles, there's nothing mooring. MAGA to anything static. It's only more to what Trump just said. The last Trump impulse is what is currently defining the MAGA movement. Well, that's by design.
Trump not defining his principles, the Trump... You know, the Trump order, the Trump version of foreign policy, not defining that is intentional. And it's actually, you know, people who study mass movements will say that that's a really important thing to do.
If you want a movement to grow and continue, you can't define it because once it's accomplished those minimal goals, it ceases to be important. So you have to leave it sort of ambiguous. And Trump believes it ambiguous because he doesn't know, and he doesn't know what he wants it to be or what he stands for other than these transactional kinds of ideas.
So MAGA is moored only to Trump, which means when Trump goes either – you know, he's not in office anymore or he dies, it's really not more to anything. And it's not more to Don Jr. It's not more to J.D. Vance or whoever the successor is. It's really just attached to him and defined by him.
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