UFOs Everywhere!

Episode #126

This week, Bill and Phil debate whether UFOs really exist and why the US government keeps shooting them down, discuss a new angry and disruptive ethos within the Republican Party, and ponder some new data suggesting that all Americans, Republicans and Democrats, want a strong, anti-democratic leader. 

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “China Tries to Depict Furor Over Spy Balloon as Sign of U.S. Decline” by David Pierson in The New York Times

• “Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s strange ‘woke’ rant reveals a big GOP problem” by Paul Waldman and  Greg Sargent in The Washington Post 

• “Heckling of Biden Reflects a New, Coarser Normal for House G.O.P.” by Karoun Demirjian in The New York Times

• “Nikki Haley Threw It All Away” by Stuart Stevens in The New York Times

• “The GOP Is Just Obnoxious” by David Frum in The Atlantic

• “Large numbers of Americans want a strong, rough, anti-democratic leader” by Tarah Williams, Andrew Bloeser, and Brian Harward in The Conversation

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