01.24.2024 - By Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
Oh dear. Watching the New Hampshire returns, the lads do a spot-on impression of the good old, liquor-soaked days of 2016 Fifth Column and get pretty deep in their cups…so yeah, sorry about this one. * Trump wins * Cutting from Trump’s dumb speech * 20 percent for Dean Phillips * This is, in fact, democracy * No one says anything on cable news * The speeches * The overstatement machine * Moralism doesn’t work * A brave defense of Iran-backed Islamism * A sort of drunken rant about hipster Houthis * The New York Times on haaaazaaaaaa * It all falls apart…something about Tipper Gore, Jello Biafra, and covering every election but the U.S. one
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