american conservatism has a new piece for the bullwork which he argues that pro-trump conservatives who claim to love america actually do not, and he writes in part this, the conservative world view frequently sees the american political tradition as one that has been badly damaged. the narratives of decline identify various points at which the fatal misstep was taken where everything started to go wrong. sometimes it s lincoln, sometimes wilson, often fdr or the 1960s. what s unusual about the trumpist right is the extent to which they think that america is not just on the brink of collapse but that it has already toppled. this may just be post electoral defeat malaise, but increasingly, these american greatness patriots appear to actively hate america and their fellow citizens.
reporters and friends. tim miller is back from the bull work. yamiche alsindor is here. and frank figluizzi is here. frank, we have always talked about these stories and the ex-president as a security threat. i have followed this reporting if i haven t always amplified it here on the show and i detect what started as bemusement and ego stoking of monitoring the maricopa county add out and now seems to be directing the phony recounts. in that move, what do the extremists hear?
in the nixon administration. a pretty blunt assessment of the current president today from richard nixon s former white house counsel. came during a hearing that republican lawmakers tried to dismiss as a stunt. we are happy to have back with us tonight bill kristol, veteran of the reagan and bush administrations, director of defending democracy together, and editor at large of the bullwork. bill, welcome. thank you for being here. what was the lasting, if any, impact from john dean s appearance today in your view? yeah, i m not sure. i mean, i think it s a reminder of how effectively the trump administration, the trump white house has so far blunted the effort by democrats and the house to do a normal investigation. all the indications of executive privilege and the slow walking of subpoenas and so forth, we haven t yet heard from robert mueller. we haven t yet heard from don mcgahn and all the other fact witnesses we want to hear from. for me that was the big lesson.
with our allies. you know, germany, particularly that he took on germany, it has been the bullwork of making sure that sanctions against russia for invading ukraine and annexing crimea and undermining democracy, including our own. so, undermining, germany, undermining the alliance does play in putin s hand. your senate colleagues took an unusual trip to moscow over the recess. it was not a bipartisan delegation. they came back and ron johnson senator from wisconsin had this to say.