Frequent commentator on american politics and political history. , the Mansfield Center for the university, montana. His work has appeared the new york times, the Washington Post, the bulwark, california journal, politics and public policy. Montana. The magazine of western history and the indiana magazine of history. He is a columnist for the lewiston tribune. Idaho, and writes regularly on the blog many things considered. His previous books for the university of Oklahoma Press are tuesday massacre for Senate Elections and the radicalization of the republican party, a study of how independent campaigns upended american politics after 1980 and political hellraiser a biography of montana new deal era senator Burton K Wheeler and that is a spur Award Finalist by the western writers of johnson served as a press as the press secretary and chief of staff to idahos longest serving governor, cecil d andrus, and is a graduate of south dakota state university. He lives in oregon. Please help me
i want to promise you this, i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again. and that s more important than my own personal ambition. [ applause ]. breaking news from the presidential race, trump s most persistent critic on the campaign trail, chris christie, announces he is dropping out. also tonight, trump often claimed to have unlimited power as president. now his pitch for absolute power. and his claims of immunity from any legal consequences should be setting off alarm bells. and yet, all we re hearing from republicans are the sounds of silence. good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with breaking news. just one day since the attorney for the former president of the united states argued in federal court that a president has the authority under the theory of absolute immunity to murder their political opponent. only one republican, one, reacted to that insane idea. former new jersey governor, chris
Little bit about mark c johnson. Hes the author books and a u. S. Senate history and a frequent commentator on american and political history. Mr. Johnson is also a fellow, the Mansfield Center for the university, montana. His work has appeared the new york times, the Washington Post, the bulwark, california journal, politics and public policy. Montana. The magazine of western history and the indiana magazine of history. He is a columnist for the lewiston tribune. Idaho, and writes regularly on the blog many things considered. His previous books for the university of Oklahoma Press are tuesday massacre for Senate Elections and the radicalization of the republican party, a study of how independent campaigns upended american politics after 1980 and political hellraiser a biography of montana new deal era senator Burton K Wheeler and that is a spur Award Finalist by the western writers of johnson served as a press as the press secretary and chief of staff to idahos longest serving governo
He is also a journalist background he was covered the Milwaukee City Hall for milwaukee journal it goes on to become the editorinchief of milwaukee magazine. Most folks know him today as the host on msnbc but for that he was a powerhouse radio host in wisconsin testing a conservative talk radio show for 13 years that was highly influential and did a great deal. Basically he if you wanted to win office in wisconsin you came through sykes show. Of course, today his book is how the right lost its mind and theres a followup book, im going to suggest, that would be and the rest of us soon followed. [laughter] it is my honor to introduce charlie sykes. Oh yes, there will be followup books here, i think. First of all, i want to thank you for inviting me here today with folks from the cspan, too. Believe it or not i dont want to spend most my time talking about donald trump today. Want to talk about what donald trump is doing to us, you know, including for living through this together. Nc 2017
John thats our show tonight. And now, john stossel. John are you for social justice . I want to say i am because if im not wouldnt that mean im for social injustice . That sounds terrible. Its why social justice is such a powerful slogan. It usually means, well, im not clear exactly what it means. It can mean so many things. Jonah goldberg explains that in this video for prager university. Ask ten lib calls to tell you liberals to tell you what they mean by social justice and youll get ten different answers. Thats because social justice means anything its champions want it to mean. Social justice is code for good things no one needs to argue for and no one dare be against. John except me. Excuse me, i want to be against it, because those sweet words, social justice, really mean the state gets to use force to take money from some people, give it to somebody else, and also it gets to boss everybody around even more. The selfdeclared champions of social justice believe the state must reme