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Thomas Zimmer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

This idea that there's so little time left is just pervasive in these circles. They will constantly say this. This is our last chance. This is the one chance we got now with Trump coming back to power. If we can't reverse course now and make this counter-revolution happen, it's not going to happen. I think the fact that he says Marxist, I think this was a lengthy post on ex-Twitter or something.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

This idea that there's so little time left is just pervasive in these circles. They will constantly say this. This is our last chance. This is the one chance we got now with Trump coming back to power. If we can't reverse course now and make this counter-revolution happen, it's not going to happen. I think the fact that he says Marxist, I think this was a lengthy post on ex-Twitter or something.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

This idea that there's so little time left is just pervasive in these circles. They will constantly say this. This is our last chance. This is the one chance we got now with Trump coming back to power. If we can't reverse course now and make this counter-revolution happen, it's not going to happen. I think the fact that he says Marxist, I think this was a lengthy post on ex-Twitter or something.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

what you just quoted, that is so revealing. He really doesn't make any difference between socialism, Marxism, communism, liberalism, progressivism. It's all the same. It's all this kind of subversion of the quote-unquote natural order. You can't come to an agreement with those people. This is not

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

what you just quoted, that is so revealing. He really doesn't make any difference between socialism, Marxism, communism, liberalism, progressivism. It's all the same. It's all this kind of subversion of the quote-unquote natural order. You can't come to an agreement with those people. This is not

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

what you just quoted, that is so revealing. He really doesn't make any difference between socialism, Marxism, communism, liberalism, progressivism. It's all the same. It's all this kind of subversion of the quote-unquote natural order. You can't come to an agreement with those people. This is not

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

This is not someone who thinks about the political conflict in like democratic, small d democratic terms, right? Oh, you have a political opponent, you disagree with them and you kind of, you know, you kind of work it out. No, this is a fundamentally illegitimate, fundamentally anti-American project that he sees on the quote unquote left that doesn't need to be like bargained with.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

This is not someone who thinks about the political conflict in like democratic, small d democratic terms, right? Oh, you have a political opponent, you disagree with them and you kind of, you know, you kind of work it out. No, this is a fundamentally illegitimate, fundamentally anti-American project that he sees on the quote unquote left that doesn't need to be like bargained with.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

This is not someone who thinks about the political conflict in like democratic, small d democratic terms, right? Oh, you have a political opponent, you disagree with them and you kind of, you know, you kind of work it out. No, this is a fundamentally illegitimate, fundamentally anti-American project that he sees on the quote unquote left that doesn't need to be like bargained with.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

It needs to be destroyed.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

It needs to be destroyed.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

It needs to be destroyed.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Again, this is not dismantling the state, right? They want to do that. They want to get rid of the Department of Education, whatever. But what you heard there was, no, we're going to take over government. And we're going to do it by, A, purging the government, purging the state of the leftists, the bureaucrats.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Again, this is not dismantling the state, right? They want to do that. They want to get rid of the Department of Education, whatever. But what you heard there was, no, we're going to take over government. And we're going to do it by, A, purging the government, purging the state of the leftists, the bureaucrats.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

Again, this is not dismantling the state, right? They want to do that. They want to get rid of the Department of Education, whatever. But what you heard there was, no, we're going to take over government. And we're going to do it by, A, purging the government, purging the state of the leftists, the bureaucrats.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And by the way, he sees all of these career bureaucrats, experts as just part of the leftist takeover of government. And so he was, even in the first Trump administration, the biggest proponent of Schedule F, this presidential executive order that would convert thousands, maybe tens of thousands of career civil servants into political appointees and then make them fireable.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And by the way, he sees all of these career bureaucrats, experts as just part of the leftist takeover of government. And so he was, even in the first Trump administration, the biggest proponent of Schedule F, this presidential executive order that would convert thousands, maybe tens of thousands of career civil servants into political appointees and then make them fireable.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

And by the way, he sees all of these career bureaucrats, experts as just part of the leftist takeover of government. And so he was, even in the first Trump administration, the biggest proponent of Schedule F, this presidential executive order that would convert thousands, maybe tens of thousands of career civil servants into political appointees and then make them fireable.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

That's what that is about, right? And so that's what they want to do again, purge government, purge all these agencies, departments, every part of the administrative state of government. what they see as the enemy within, and replace them with loyalists.

The Bulwark Podcast
Michael Weiss and Thomas Zimmer: Competent and Radical

That's what that is about, right? And so that's what they want to do again, purge government, purge all these agencies, departments, every part of the administrative state of government. what they see as the enemy within, and replace them with loyalists.