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E Jean Carrol, Roberta Kaplan, Jon Allen & Jeff Stein

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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Trump's Coalition Element in the Republican Party

I was surprised there weren't more people on the Trumpy right who are like, let's just blow up the economy so that Trump gets elected in 24. He did want to crash the economy. I mean, he said, don't make a deal. The impulse of Trump is not to lower non-defense and specialary spending. Like he wants to know it's popular. And this like almost like Greek tragedy element to some of these like advisors around him who talk about Trump and these like highly idealized terms. They worship Trump. Then they spend like years trying to cut spending and Trump is like, you guys are weird.

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