October 16, 2024

Meghan McCain: 'Trump Didn't Break My Brain. What's Your Excuse?'

1 hour 16 minutes

Today's guest is Meghan McCain, political commentator, former co-host of ABC's The View, and host of the podcast Citizen McCain.

Reason's Billy Binion talks with her about the changing GOP, bias in corporate media, the 2024 election, and what it's like to be a non-MAGA, nonpopulist member of today's Republican Party.

0:00- Introduction

0:21- Ad: St. John's College

1:36- Libertarians vs. the McCains

3:33- Being a non-MAGA, non-populist conservative

6:56- Obama lecturing black male voters

9:38- Kamala Harris' terrible press strategy

11:07- Meghan McCain does not have TDS

19:14- John McCain also didn't have TDS

25:34- Who wins 2024? Trump or Harris?

27:15- McCain's Republican Party

30:22- Bipartisan Write-A-Check politics

34:10- The gerontocracy & Biden's disastrous debate performance

39:52- The Democratic Party has big problems too

44:14- The CBS Ta-Nehisi Coates/Tony Dokoupil meltdown

51:06- Corporate legacy media is collapsing

55:14- Recovering from The View

1:02:47- Kari Lake traded her principles for failure

1:08:00- Being an early public supporter of gay marriage

1:12:24- 'America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter To Freedom'

1:13:53- 'Nepo babies' contain multitudes!

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Video Editor: Ian Keyser

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