Love ‘em or hate ‘em, The Bulwark matters. We value and respect their prominent position in the pro-democracy movement. Yet despite their success, the Bulwark advises on politics from a point of view so ideologically blinkered that it puts the entire movement at risk.
In this episode of Reality Checking the Bulwark, Evan and I take apart Tim Miller’s Bulwark Podcast interview with Jonathan Chait, “The World’s Worst People,” as a case study in the limits of establishment anti-Trump commentary. Even as the episode focuses on Trump’s corruption, his diversions, and the growing Epstein scandal, it also falls back into a familiar genre: treating the left as a perpetual object of correction while imagining moderation as the natural center of political sanity. We use that tension to explore how The Bulwark can sound clear-eyed about Trump yet still reproduce the reactionary centrist reflex of disciplining the very constituencies that any durable anti-authoritarian coalition will need.
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REALITY CHECKING THE BULWARK - EPISODE 5
March 15 at 2pm EST / 11am PST
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