Grift, Graft, and Expanding Presidential Power
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🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Saturday! Snow is slated for the Queen City this weekend and I hope if you’re slated for some snow, you’re prepared and it isn’t “bad” snow, but rather the good kind: snow that makes drives and walks pleasant.
I joined my friend and lifelong Cincinnatian Phil Heimlich (whom I profiled a few years ago) on his show Sanity Check for an extended conversation about where Never Trumpers like us stand politically these days. Be sure to watch!
Our friends Kelli and Sue were also kind enough to host my colleague Lauren Egan on Front Porch AF.
🚨A new ad…🚨 From our friends at Home of the Brave: Tennis star Martina Navratilova is “Pissed Off as Hell” About Donald Trump
Diagnosing America… Jay Nordlinger shares a few notes on the health of our constitutional republic.
Laugh, And the World Laughs With You… And if it doesn’t, laugh at the world anyway—because spite works, too, argues Matt Labash 🔐.
Give the man a prize… Jordan Klepper doing what he does best: learning how Trump voters rationalize all of this.
Discussion Prompt: What’s your favorite winter tradition, or, if no traditions: one winter life hack?
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Jim, for the Martina ad alone you deserve a big THANK YOU. And to the rest of us Bulwarkians, watch and forward it. Let's help make it VIRAL.
I watched about 5 minutes of the Klepper video. Those are brain cells I’ll never get back.