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John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home.
Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for me. I remember when we first met. It was either 1990 or 1991, and I was a baby Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and was in charge of inviting speakers to come to the national convention for the Federalist Society. I decided to take a flyer and invite you to come speak at a program on the overfederalization of crime, and to my amazement, not only did you accept, but from the first time I met you, you insisted that I call you Ed. I never dreamed that at some point in my career, I would have t
They re political opposites. But old friends Willie Brown and Ed Rollins are teaming up George Skelton © (Paul Sancya / AP and Ben Margot / AP.) Ed Rollins, left, and former San Francisco Mayor and Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. (Paul Sancya / AP and Ben Margot / AP.)
Willie Brown thinks Donald Trump is going down in history as being maybe the worst president.”
That’s no surprise. The former Assembly speaker and mayor is a San Francisco liberal. But Ed Rollins?
Rollins is a career Republican strategist who managed President Reagan’s landslide reelection in 1984 and led a super PAC last year that backed President Trump, raising more than $60 million. In 2016, he also ran a pro-Trump fundraising PAC.
One negative result of political polarization is closed minds that aren’t open to facts and independent thinking. The prime recent example is so many Republicans buying Trump’s lie that the election was “stolen” from him by voter fraud.
“I wanted to still stay in the game,” he replied candidly. “I raised money for a PAC. I didn’t want to work for him, per se.”
Their shared views about Trump aside, Brown and Rollins always have been polar opposites on core political issues. By the standards of today’s polarized world, they shouldn’t even be talking to each other.
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