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Tomasky: They truly do. I don’t think they have to make a series of awful choices between: “Do we go left, or do we go center?” I talk a little bit about that debate in the piece, too.…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 6 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
Beutler: Unfortunately, I think a lot of that is gonna have to wait for the presidential election and that the goal right now has to be harm reduction, restraining the secret immigration…
Enos: Well, I think part of it is the collective action problem that we’ve noted, where everybody thinks maybe it’s somebody else’s job to push back and things will go back to normal. And…
Donald Trump (voiceover): These people were brought to our country to vote and they vote illegally. And the you know, amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans…
And, you know, I am a pop-culture aficionado and I have just been so, like, entertained by folks who are like, Click here to learn why I didn’t date this person. Then you click on it and…
This is a lightly edited transcript of the January 29 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon:…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 30 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. A clip on Trumpworld sinking into finger-pointing is here. Greg…
Heffernan: Yeah, I’m glad we’re aligned on this because there is a numbers game that you see in fascism generally, which is, like, it’s clicking through his brain, you know: what the…
Because what’s actually happening is—and you can see this in Minneapolis—if there are social assumptions about diversity, about liberals not being sincere, about their belief in…
There’s long been an issue about how ICE—like, when it comes to collateral arrest with other things—I think there’s a lot of that dance about: Is it racial profiling? Is it not racial…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 27 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
Sargent: To circle back to where this all started, Trump just revealed yet again that the whole thing is really absurd. So we talked earlier about how he recently threatened tariffs on…
You kind of got at this—this idea that, you know, the country’s not capable of generating a sufficiently powerful opposition to Trump. I think there’s a distinction here that we have to…
And that’s really something that we need to consider as a country: how much our primary system is distorting and damaging us on both sides, honestly, but more on the Republican side. And…
How it actually works is the students who have a lot of outside options, which tend to be the more well-off students, they’re the ones the institutions are lusting after to try to recruit.…
And the U.S. was always the one that could break it and so forth. And we annexed all kinds of territory, and we don’t treat the people equally. American Samoa, for example, Puerto Rico. So…
Bacon: It wanted to be a model for the country, is what you’re getting at here? Behn: Yeah. A model of harshness. Bacon: Yes. OK. Behn: Yes. And some of these—a lot of the legislation—is…
Sargent: Just to close this out, I think the way I would put that is that they think the supercharging of all these violent tensions and malignancies among Americans, among ethnic group…
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. At a press briefing on Thursday, White House press…
And you couldn’t ask for a better example of that than comparing Ukraine to Gaza. I think it’s hard to think of a social science experiment one could devise that would show this hypocrisy…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 15 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
This is a lightly edited transcript of the January edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: I’m…
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the January 14 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced…
