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| Source:The Bulwark giving you a few of Sarah Longwell's highlights. |
"Sarah Longwell spoke on a mega-panel at the DealBook Summit and used the opportunity to call out Trump’s biggest enablers—Kevin McCarthy, Kellyanne Conway, and Jason Miller—for their gaslighting and election lies."
From The Bulwark
"A panel of political figures, advisers and journalists discuss the 2024 election and its aftermath. The discussion is moderated by Maggie Haberman, a senior political correspondent at The Times.
Participants:
Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for the 2016 Trump-Pence campaign, former senior counselor to President Donald J. Trump and author
Anita Dunn, former senior adviser to President Biden
Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent at CBS News
Margaret Hoover, host of “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover” on PBS
Alexis McGill Johnson, president of Planned Parenthood
Van Jones, founder of Dream Machine, CNN host and author
Jonathan Karl, chief Washington correspondent at ABC News
Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark and host of “The Focus Group” podcast
Kevin McCarthy, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Jason Miller, senior adviser to Mr. Trump
The conversation was recorded at the annual DealBook Summit and recorded live in front of an audience at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Read more about highlights from the day at https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/business/dealbook-summit-news
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From Apple
Just from the outset, if you are wondering why you didn't see any give and take here in this discussion from this video and it was just really just about Sarah Longwell's highlights, with one quick wisecrack from former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy: The Bulwark title of this video is literally: "Sarah Longwell CALLS OUT Donald Trump’s Biggest Enablers TO THEIR FACE" So don't act like you just saw Martians landing in middle of Nevada, or somewhere else in the middle of nowhere. Don't have a meth freakout over this.
Another observation here, is some of the human, political, wreckage here. Both KellyAnn Conway (who is famous for coining the political term "alternative facts") and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy were also on this panel.
Just 4 years ago, KellyAnne Conway was married with a couple kids and was working as one of President Donald Trump's chief political advisors. Now she's divorced and somewhat in the political abyss, who appears from time to time as a political talking head on Fox News. Donald Trump probably never becomes President of the United States, had KellyAnne not gone to work for his campaign in the summer of 2016. Which would've been a great, patriotic service on her part to the country, had she not have saved his presidential campaign.
And of course former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. Just 15 months ago, he was still Speaker of the House of Representatives. But he was too MAGA for the House Democrats and not MAGA enough, or at least too politically unilateral for House MAGA, to save his speakership. Now he's basically just another political talking head in Washington.
But to go back to my political point about Donald Trump's political wreckage; 1 of the chief Never-Trumper's of the Never-Trump movement, Rick Wilson, wrote a book about Donald Trump back in 2018 simply called: "Everything That Donald Trump Touches Dies" and this is what he was talking about:
"Respected conservative strategist and notorious provocateur Rick Wilson today released his from-the-right attack on our 45th President: Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever.
Wilson, a Daily Beast contributor, has spent his career as a GOP party insider and he isn’t afraid to call out top players like Mike Pence and Ted Cruz by name. But his new book isn’t a mere clap back. After skewering the hypocrisy of the evangelical right’s embrace of the current administration, he describes a way for the GOP to escape the trap of Trumpism and return to limited government conservatism.
With his characteristic scathing wit, he offers a party that has lost its way a light at the end of the tunnel. No matter what side of the aisle you live on, any politics junkie should pick up a copy of this pivotal take on Trump’s presidency.
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From The New Democrat
My final thought here is to pick up on something that Sarah Longwell was talking about in this video. She's simply arguing that Donald Trump is simply held to a much lower standard than everyone else in American politics.
Imagine Joe Biden doing the same political rallies that Mr. Trump was doing back in October, where it was almost impossible to figure out what the man was saying. He was either rambling or speaking in gibberish, or rambling in gibberish. (You decide) If President Biden were giving speeches like that at the same time that Mr. Trump was giving the same speeches, both the mainstream media and House Republicans would be calling for his impeachment.
This is just one example of why Donald Trump is both the Manhattan Don and the Teflon Don of American politics. He can do almost no wrong with half of the country, including with people who actually don't like that man. Almost nothing can end his political career. Except the Constitution, time, and age.
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