Podbit · The Bulwark Podcast
Tim Miller lived through the Tea Party insurgency and warns Democrats against making the same mistake Republicans made: attacking the base instead of acknowledging their legitimate frustrations. The move that empowers the DSA is center-left Democrats saying 'we're doing great, ignore those crazy people.' The move that deflates it is saying 'heard — here's how we change.'
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The danger isn't just who wins and loses in 2026 — it's what narratives get built around the results. French lays out the trap: Platner probably wins a D+14 state by 3, Talarico probably loses an R+8 state by 2, and the pundit class declares the DSA model the future of the Democratic Party. [1] — David French "If Platner wins a D+14 state by 3 while Talarico loses a R+8 state by 2, the pundit class will declare the DSA model the winner. That's the…" 51:40 That would be exactly wrong. Winning D+14 by 3 is actually underperforming — J.D. Vance won Ohio while underperforming a generic Republican, and nobody called that a ringing mandate. Losing R+8 by 2 is still a loss, but it's the kind of loss that suggests a different, more broadly appealing Democratic model could actually compete in states that have seemed out of reach. Miller connects this to 2022: Democrats took the non-red-wave as vindication of the Biden model, when the real explanation was 'Dobbs plus doofuses' — Roe v. Wade's overturn and a handful of extreme Republican nominees. The Biden administration had nothing to do with it, and drawing the wrong lesson set up the 2024 disaster. The same cognitive error is being set up for 2026 right now.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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