MAGA Can’t Run the Country To Save Its Life! (w/ Jonathan Martin) | Bulwark Podcast – The Bulwark Jan 3, 2025 Tim Miller: “what maybe the biggest kerfuffle ever created on this podcast was when Ezra Klein was on and he said that his private convos with Democrats were that they didn’t believe the Democracy message that they were pushing forth that they didn’t believe that Trump was that great of a threat – this was last summer he said that – that seems to be bearing out in a way that’s a little alarming for me.” Jonathan Martin: “If they thought he was a real threat to democracy then would the mayor of DC be taking meetings with him to talk about getting employees back five days a week into their cubes?”
And more and more people remark upon this as time goes on.
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent/ May 22, 2025 Transcript: Trump Unravels in Wild Rants as Polling Shows New Weakness As Trump’s press conference goes off the rails, a sharp observer of public opinion on Trump argues that the anti-MAGA majority is reviving—and that Trump’s bizarre display demonstrates why that’s happening. Podhorzer: When you think about what is happening now to this country, what’s being broken in ways that are not going to be fixed, right? And you think about how much money gets spent for this or that little niche issue, or how much time a member of Congress does this or that—in fact, 2024 was about whether or not we’re just going to shred the Constitution, right? Almost no one was behaving as if that was actually going to be our future. And you were, and a number of other people.… It is cringey sometimes to be in a crowd when you yelled “Fire!” and everyone just looks the other way. But that’s what everyone needed to do. Sargent: And it didn’t happen.
It reminds me of this video…
Human behaviour during a fire alarm | iHASCO (youtube video) Members of the public being secretly filmed, a fire alarm is activated. What do they do What would you do? This excellent piece of film shows the importance of a fire warden and fire awareness