Election Day 2025

Episode #241

This week, Bill and Phil sort through the results of the 2025 midterms and discuss whether they tell us anything useful about American democracy, consider the legacy of Dick Cheney, and play another round of “What’s More Stupid?”.

Links related to this week’s episode:

• “The Backlash Has Arrived: 6 Takeaways From a Good Night for Democrats” by Reid J. Epstein in The New York Times

• “Democrats Won Big Because They Won Over Trump Supporters” by Nate Cohn in The New York Times

• “The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges” by David A. Graham in The Atlantic

• “‘None of This Is Good for Republicans’” by Russell Berman in The Atlantic

• “In the Trump Era, Cheney’s Brand of Conservatism Became Obsolete” by Robert Draper in The New York Times

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