Conversations with Bill Kristol
News:Politics
Has Donald Trump changed since he first ran for president in 2015? How is he conducting his campaign now? What might a second Trump term look like?
To discuss these questions, we are joined by Jonathan Karl, Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC News and author of Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party. Trump’s 2024 campaign is "based on grievance and revenge,” according to Karl. And he is concerned “we’ll have a constitutional crisis from day one,” because many who upheld the rule of law during Trump's first term would not be around in a second. Karl shows how Trump and his closest advisers now are more determined to root out ordinary members of the bureaucracy who oppose Trump—the so-called “Deep State”—and to weaken Republicans who are not Trump acolytes. What could be a defining feature of the second term, Karl explains, is the highest offices of the land being selected based on personal loyalty to Donald Trump rather than on policy experience or competency.
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David Axelrod on Biden v. Trump 2024
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Timothy Snyder on Ukraine, Russia, America—and What’s at Stake
Doug Sosnik on the State of the Race: Trump, Biden, and 2024
Whit Ayres on 2024: How Weak is Trump? What about Biden?
Aaron Friedberg on the China Challenge—and a World in Disarray
Peter Berkowitz on Israel at War: A Nation United and Divided
Ruth Wisse on Anti-Semitism—and Why it Matters
Ray Takeyh on 10/7, Hamas, and Iran
Eric Edelman on the New World Disorder
Jason Furman on the Economy: Where Are We Now—and Where Might We Be Going?
Fred Kagan on Ukraine: Where Things Stand
James Carville on Biden, Trump, the Democrats, and 2024
Stephen Rosen on the China Challenge
Whit Ayres on the State of the Race: Is It Still Trump's Party?
Ryan Goodman on the Trump Trial: What Might Happen?
Google’s Royal Hansen on AI: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?
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