About this episode

Episode 1017 examines confessions from prominent figures about the Republican base's integrity over the past decade.

Episode 1017 puts a decade of Never Trump confessions on trial, dissecting this unusual week where Tim Miller, Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson, and Joe Scarborough all admitted, in various roundabout ways, that they'd known the Republican base was rotten all along. Driftglass and Blue Gal ask the only question that matters — did they know, or were they delusional? — and prove with two decades of receipts that they knew, they profited from it, and now they're profiting again by pretending to be "t...

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Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• Never Trump
• Republican base
• political commentary
• media accountability
• political confessions

Keywords

• Never Trump
• Republican Party
• political commentary
• Tim Miller
• Joe Scarborough

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