This isn't how politics used to work.
Tim Miller on the importance of having politicians willing to buck conventional wisdom—and endure bullshit attacks, even from their own side—if you actually want to achieve meaningful change in our current system. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4wpiRIc
However much their political imperatives may be clashing, the two men still hold some of the same fundamental grievances.
Two recent developments highlight how Trump and Kennedy’s anti-scientist and anti-elite animus binds them to one another, and to the MAGA/MAHA movement. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3RAScYS
Nick Fuentes made a career out of harassing non-openly racist Republicans. Now, he is being challenged from his own, even more deranged right flank.
The internet's preeminent Groyper is facing off with a gun-toting playboy heir and a coterie of disillusioned followers. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4u0Mj5D
While the American people have been paying Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to do his job—like alleviating the high price of gas and air travel—lobbyists have been buying him off with a seven-month-long family road trip. But of course, Trump is also being looked after: His ghastly, 22-foot golden sculpture was unveiled, and Republicans promised a billion taxpayer dollars for what was supposed to be a donor-funded ballroom. Trump needs a little bit of a psychological boost after his apparent defeat in Iran.
Plus, Ukraine is gaining ground and Putin sounds like he's winding his war down, Trump has basically ended the post-WWII order, and Tennessee's redistricting was pure racial gerrymandering.
Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller on today's Bulwark Podcast.
"If the Fed has to raise rates...do you think the president will attempt to arrest or indict Kevin Warsh?" "I don't think it's totally outside of the realm of possibility."
JVL and Catherine Rampell Trump’s efforts to turn the Fed into another instrument of personal loyalty. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/courts-keep-rejecting-trumps-tariffs
"November is coming up, and so you do have a voting opportunity to win this. The response from Democrats should be to make people as angry as possible... and to say the only way we fix this is with overwhelming voting force."
Sarah Longwell on how Dems can win a rigged map fight. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4u8d74g
Tennessee just completely disenfranchised its black voters after the Supreme Court gave red states the green light to rig the midterms by redistricting black majority districts out of existence—as long as lawmakers pretend they don’t see color when they’re doing it. And while partisan gerrymandering is A-OK with Alito & co., it apparently is not alright for Democratic voters in Virginia to do anything like that to Republicans. Sure sounds like the free speech rules of the Trump administration, where people are free to say what Republicans want said.
Plus, the burning rage in the Democratic base, the male doomer industry is selling a bill of goods, and Trump’s very Victorian underestimation of Iran’s ability to fight back.
The Atlantic's Adam Serwer joins Tim Miller on today's Bulwark Podcast.
Just over a year into his second term, the economic landscape is littered with victims mangled by Trump’s agenda. Corporate bankruptcies last year rose to their highest level in over a decade.
Catherine Rampell takes a look at the ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard. https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4ng0WQb