Trump, Iran, and Where This All Might Be Headed: A Conversation With Mike Madrid

About this episode

Mike Madrid joins the hosts to discuss the fast-moving news cycle and its implications on politics and society.

Text us your questions! The news cycle is moving so fast it’s training us to forget. We invited Mike Madrid, a longtime classical conservative political strategist, commentator, and Lincoln Project cofounder, back on the show to help us slow down and put the recent chaos into perspective. We start with crisis fatigue and the “flood the zone” feeling, then get concrete with the Minneapolis ICE crackdown and why masked, militarized enforcement collides with the conservative case for due proces...

People in this episode

Hosts: Randy Knie, Kyle Whitaker

Guest: Mike Madrid

Topics covered

• politics
• conservatism
• crisis fatigue
• due process
• law enforcement
• Iran
• Trump

Keywords

• Trump
• Iran
• political strategy
• conservatism
• ICE crackdown
• due process
• crisis fatigue

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lincoln Project

Places: Minneapolis

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