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The MAGA Bargain Is Collapsing (w/ Tom Nichols) | The Bulwark Podcast

2025-12-23 News & Politics
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Six months ago, MAGA world was strutting around with their chests puffed out. But now, many of them are having a blue Christmas over the infighting, the economy, the DOJ's inability to deliver revenge, and Trump's cover-up of child sex traffickers—one of the key things they really cared about. All Trump can think to do is plaster his name on another large object, including most recently a new fleet of warships. Plus, the bourbon shutdown, Bari's getting burned by Canada also airing "60 Minutes," the president could move Ghislaine out of her cushy prison, and Epstein in his alleged letter to Larry Nassar really sounds like "Access Hollywood" Trump. Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller. Show Notes: Tom on Trump's new 'golden fleet' of warships: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trumps-vanity-fleet/685399/?gift=AO0MhSsTDaHgiP_RxFGfB8p4wX8l__L0O7dqXn5jMQA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share Navy Secretary John Phelan: https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/authoring/authoring-images/2024/11/27/USAT/76617552007-502768624.jpg?crop=2167,2168,x0,y0 Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BULWARK at https://www.oneskin.co/BULWARK #oneskinpod Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join

Top Comments (10)

@gecho194 2025-12-23

May Trump live long enough to see his name removed from everything he had named after him.

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@wizardragontdr 2025-12-23

BIG, slow, easy target? That's Trump in a nutshell.

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@pauladunn3555 2025-12-23

I love when Tom is on, it's an automatic click for me! I reallllllly wish he was on more often.....

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@Cayce-d7z 2025-12-24

Yesterday, my neighbor, who is a rural working class single parent, told me he is dropping their health insurance, because the premium went up by $800 a month. Idk who he voted for and won't ask, but he's very much against Trump now. But no reflective person could wish this sort of pain on others.

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@RogueDonut87 2025-12-24

God it infuriates me how much money, resources, time, energy, and nature are wasted because we just have to follow a delusional person. In a sane society we’d be able to remove such a person from office, but no we are just going to go along with this for a minimum of 4 years

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@kimbertrue 2025-12-24

Blanche said Maxwell “was suffering” and therefore moved. Please play that up, she the SEX TRAFFICKER and CHILD ABUSER is “suffering”??? WTF? she’s supposed to suffer in prison but gets Todd Blanche’s empathy instead the victims who deserve that…NOT HER!!

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@kimdarling590 2025-12-24

“Golden fleet?” No more of a “Golden Fleece” of the American taxpayer.

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@TheGlobetrekkinGal 2025-12-23

Tom: "Poverty of character." Perfect description of that heinous criminal!

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@Utah_John 2025-12-24

Don't like the idea of any naval ship being named after a draft dodger. On the other hand,the USS Jack Smith,does have a nice ring to it...

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@gweppner4006 2025-12-23

Dementia doesn't get better. It's just getting worse. NO pervy demented KINGS ☠️👑💀

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