Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing
6/2/20261 hr 1 min
Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immorality. And the Dems are currently in a bit of a moral dilemma of their own over the latest Platner revelations, given the moral imperative of having a Senate that obstructs Trump’s worst policies. Questions of morality also surface with AI, particularly if we allow machines to do the thinking for us. Plus, the Dems need a Wemby, an American debt crisis seems inevitable, the global fertility crisis may be too hard to fix, and why is the English-language world the most unhappy?
Derek Thompson joins Tim Miller.
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Tim Miller· Host0:58
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Bulwark Podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. There is so much political news on this Tuesday. We've got primaries tonight in Iowa, big Senate primary, California governor and mayor's primary, also New Jersey, Montana, and New Mexico.