A throwback week in politics finds New York’s Boss Tweed of Swagger in trouble, a Republican bucking the party line for his constituents and a name Democrats thought they were done with.

Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer, who writes the weekly newsletter The Surge.

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