MAGA’s Tough Guy Act Collapsed in Minneapolis (w/ Adam Serwer & Bobby Pulido) | The Bulwark Podcast

The mass deportation operation was supposed to be about the manly men pulling out all the stops in defense of Western civilization, which they claim is being brought down by brown and black immigrants. But it is the multi-racial, multi-faith people of Minneapolis who are fighting—at the risk of their own lives—for the cause of community, neighborhoodism, and social cohesion. And that is not the same social cohesion of JD Vance, who thinks white people need to live next door to other white people. Meanwhile, MAGA’s dreams that Trump had flipped Hispanic voters sure doesn’t seem to be the case in the Rio Grande Valley, where people are feeling disrespected and not free to be themselves. Plus, the current state of Second Amendment politics, and some much-needed ridicule of Stephen Miller. The Atlantic's Adam Serwer and Texas-15 congressional candidate Bobby Pulido join Tim Miller. Show Notes: Adam's piece in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=AO0MhSsTDaHgiP_RxFGfB2BAbZfRG0rUPYjBrqZlLgY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Adam's book, "The Cruelty Is the Point": https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-cruelty-is-the-point-the-past-present-and-future-of-trump-s-america-adam-serwer/231e4abf7407a4cf Bobby's campaign website: https://bobbypulidofortexas.com/ Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://joindeleteme.com/BULWARK and use promo code BULWARK at checkout Chapters: 00:00 Bulwark live tour announcement 01:07 Welcome Adam Serwer 01:24 Serwer on Minnesota crackdown 01:57 “An attack on an American city” 03:01 How ICE watch networks operate 05:29 Confrontations and federal intimidation 07:05 Courage and risks of resistance 08:15 Racial profiling and citizen detentions 10:09 Stephen Miller and ideology 10:57 MAGA masculinity and violence 13:25 JD Vance and social cohesion 16:27 Neighbors defending neighbors 18:16 Accountability and democracy 22:32 What “Western civilization” really means 26:45 Historical parallels to state violence 32:52 Can this resistance last 34:50 Ad break – DeleteMe 36:22 Bobby Pulido joins the show 41:05 ICE enforcement and funding fights 47:20 South Texas politics and voter backlash 54:49 Faith, culture, and winning the Valley Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join