Bill Kristol: The High Cost of Stupidity

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Part of the reason for the market bloodbath is because the finance wizzes didn't factor in that Trump would actually do the truly moronic thing he kept saying he would. Their shock over his recklessness is intensifying the crash. Meanwhile, a trio of administration fools trying to defend the tariffs—Lutnick, Bessent, and Hassett—showed there is no grand design to the trade war, White House infighting is getting hot enough that even Elon is subtweeting Trump, and the folks we elected over on the Hill could actually do something to try to stop the market carnage. Plus, new reporting on our government's kidnapping of migrants, Republicans in North Carolina are trying to steal a supreme court seat, and where is JD Vance?

Bill Kristol joins Tim Miller.

show notes

* JVL on the end of the American Age

* Lauren on the backlash against Dems in major law firms who are bending the knee

* 60 Minutes segment on migrants sent to the Salvadoran penal colony

* Tim's 'Bulwark Take' responding to the 60 Minutes report

* Tim talking with AEI's Stan Veuger about Trump's terrible tariff math

* The book, "The Captive Mind" by Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz

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