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Even RFK Jr. Tried to Stop Trump’s Vaccine Rant

2025-10-14 News & Politics
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Trump's Institutional Collapse and Growing Untouchability

Discover why corporate America and Congress have surrendered to Donald Trump, leaving him acting like an untouchable force across Washington. Learn what little pushback remains and why institutional courage is failing.

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  • Corporate leaders and Congress are capitulating to Trump, believing resistance is futile for the next three and a half years.
  • The perceived passion of MAGA voters has shifted corporate incentives away from social consciousness toward self-preservation.
  • Despite claims of institutional respect, Congress is allowing Trump to ignore its spending authority, risking the core checks and balances of democracy.
  • Sporadic pushback, like reactions to Jimmy Kimmel’s firing, shows resistance can work, but leaders lack collective guts. This discussion analyzes a Wall Street Journal report detailing Donald Trump's emboldened agenda, contrasting his first term's resistance with the current atmosphere of fear and fatigue among powerful institutions. Speakers argue that while the power of the purse is being ceded, localized pressure campaigns occasionally demonstrate agency, highlighting a profound crisis in institutional courage.

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Sam Stein and Sarah Longwell take on how Trump has broken every source of resistance that once held him back — from corporate America to Congress — and why cowardice, fear, and fatigue have left him acting untouchable. They discuss the Wall Street Journal story about Trump’s growing power, the CEOs too scared to cross him, and the moment he was even too extreme for RFK Jr. Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@GEORGEARTHUROTISKRUSE 2025-10-14

Most of our leaders may be cowards, but there are millions of people in this country still willing to stand up for their rights. Watch this weekend.

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@Daniel-ey2gf 2025-10-14

That cease fire deal was negotiated by the Biden administration and put on the shelf by netanyahoo so that his criminal accomplice and sex offender pal could get credit after the election. Trump boasts about accomplishments that he had nothing to do with and it's the story of his entire repulsive life.

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@lorenbanks293 2025-10-14

Trump involvement in Israel is personal. Golf courses hotels whatever. 20 phase ceasefire that has 2nd phase basically clearing Gaza of the Palestinians. Then rubble. Peace is just a political perk for him. He only cares for himself ever.

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@Chris-j2w9j 2025-10-14

I just passed a test to become an election poll worker. The procedures are quite involved. Which is good. Proud to help ensure voting goes well.

130 15 replies
@rainee47 2025-10-14

The great mistake after the Civil War was forgiveness without anyone from the Confederacy asking for forgiveness. It allowed them to continue their slave-based ideology and led to Jim Crow. We can not forgive these criminalsl There has to be accountabilty from the top down.

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@joannheale8778 2025-10-14

He didn’t help get hostages home - they should have been home (and more of them still alive) 10 months ago when Biden/Blinken devised that exact plan. But Netanyahu wanted to help get Trump elected so that Netanyahu could continue his assault on Gaza with support from the US.

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@DanaBaltizar 2025-10-14

Look how much damage he's already done in 8 months. Just imagine what it will be like in 3 more years.

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@May-c5q 2025-10-14

Let's be fair it was the pushback from the ENTIRE WORLD at the UNGA that set the stage for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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@patrickwhelan5703 2025-10-14

NO KINGS OCTOBER 18TH, 2025! FIND A SITE AND GET THERE!!!!! BRING A FLAG!!!!

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@Chris-j2w9j 2025-10-14

Supreme Court is the opposite of supreme. It is mostly corrupt.

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