Reason Reporter Billy Binion speaks with political pundit, podcaster, and former co-host of “The View” Meghan McCain.
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!
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/10/16/meghan-mccain-trump-didnt-break-my-brain-whats-your-excuse/
Reason’s Billy Binion talks with McCain 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.
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