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Podcast: swamp stories

Podcast: swamp stories
The Fulcrum
By The FulcrumJan 18, 2022
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In this episode of Issue One’s “Swamp Stories”podcast, Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI) chats about a range of issues, including legislating instead of “throwing bombs”; fighting pessimism in Congress; election disinformation; using government to solve problems; and the future of conservatism. This is the fifth episode in the periodic series of longform conversations with elected leaders, activists, and experts from across the political spectrum on how to fix America’s broken political system.

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Democrats have work to do to reclaim the mantle of change

“Democrats are like the Yankees,” said one of the most memorable tweets to come across on X after Election Day. “Spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lose the big series and no one got fired or was held accountable.”

Too sad. But that’s politics. The disappointment behind that tweet was widely shared, but no one with any experience in politics truly believes that no one will be held accountable.

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The decision by President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, despite previously suggesting he would not do so, has reopened debate over the use of the presidential pardon.

Hunter Biden will be spared potential jail time not simply over his convictions for gun and tax offenses, but any “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period Jan. 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

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