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86: Jeremy Peters Traces the GOP’s Descent to Trump

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Insurgency Subtitle, How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted

The day that Trump insulted John McCain as a not a war hero because he'd been captured, I thought that was the end. But you know what? Like had we been listening, I'm guilty as you are. Had we been carefully watched listening and paying attention there, he spoke those words in front of an evangelical audience in Iowa and the audience laughed. Yeah. Well, they got their,. they got their court and it. They got everything they ever wanted.

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