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Influence, that relevancy is gained not through fighting on any of the approximately see, and weve seen almost none of that in the early days of the biden administration and it is all on the lowest common denominator culture war issues and a lot of it isnt real culture war outrage and its phony manufactured and meant to raise money and rile up the base and its very effective. >> tim alberta, who is a wonderful chronicler of this situation, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> sure. m...

There anything -- new current wave of republicans are doing. which is why in a new piece in the atlantic, questions if there is any place in the party for congressman like michigan and rob peter meijer. meyer voted to certify the results of the 2021 election, and for donald trumps second impeachment and seems at least normally committed to governance. -- does not believe he is standing alone against republican trolls like marjorie taylor greene or georgia or paul gosar of his arizona. quote, con...

That is an explosive force in american politics that has the great majority of republican elected leaders afraid of their own base, which is what tim portrays with so much subtlety and sophistication in his piece in "the atlantic." the other thing thats going on with the january 6th anniversary is that republicans are methodically going through all the ways that trump tried to overthrow the last election and got thwarted and they are trying to clear the path so that he can do it again successful...

Angry mob stormed his new place of work. fueled by the lies his party is still spreading. one week after that fateful day, he made history, becoming the only freshman congressman in u.s. history to vote to impeach a president of his own party. he was one of the only ten house republicans to do so. in a remarkable new piece of reporting in the atlantic written by tim alberta, alberta delves into myers inner turmoil writing quote, in the days leading up to the vote, myer says he barely slept. it w...

Been planning for, preparing for. >> that was the day after voting to impeach the ex-president. peter myer standing by his decision, not letting threats of violent prevent him from maintaining his principles, but as weve been discussing about tims latest piece in the atlantic, myer is an exception in this republican party and in the months since he made that decision, hes had to navigate an extremely difficult path in the republican party. tim alberta is back. joining our conversation, eddie, an...

Their powers, primarying them, so that a proponent of the big lie will be in charge next time a decision has to be made. >> tim, your piece tries to help us understand whats happening within the republican party, through the eyes of this freshman representative who was only in office for a handful of days before the insurrection happened. what is going on? >> katy, obviously barts piece sort of lays the foundation for, as he explained, not just what has taken place, but why it was so important i...

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[Ed(Seth): Friend of the blog and Slate writer Ben Mathis-Lilley is working on a book about college football head coaches and the interactions of these men with the particular fanbases they stand astride. Or something like that. While he does his research we’ve dragooned him into attending Michigan games and studying the fan cultures he finds, while also keeping tabs on the Michigan mood. This week he met a bunch of MSU fans in their natural habitat.] ------------------------------------ The d...