GOP Attacks On Biden's East Palestine Response Falling Flat? | Alex Pareene | TMR

Emma speaks with Alex Pareene, Contributing Editor at the New Republic and proprietor of the AP newsletter on Substack, to round up the week in news. Alex Pareene joins as he walks through the holes in the GOP’s response to the genuine failures of Biden’s administration in East Palestine, as they focus on deregulation (literally the centerpiece of GOP politics for a century) and culture war issues that never stick to Biden, before parsing through Pete Buttigieg’s incredibly weak response to his inaction over these last few weeks. They also tackle Ron DeSantis’ weak positioning ahead of the 2024 primaries and assess the roles of Donald Trump and George Santos in shifting the Overton window for compulsive liars in politics.

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A wonderful friend of the show Alex Pareene of the AP sub stack newsletter. The good AP. contributing Editor to the new Republic. And hosts of the politics of everything the show over there. Alex thanks for coming on. Thank you very much, Emma. happy to be here. Well happy to have you. so East Palestine dominated the news this week. You know I've been fascinated to see how the Republicans have seized on this opportunity to make some sort of political stand. I think they notice that you know Biden was in Ukraine. They figured that they could use this as an opportunity to connect some of the languages you've seen on you know why is all this money going to Ukraine when it could be going to X Y and Z. Or attack by the non-infrastructure not being sufficient despite the inflation reduction act. I'm not exactly sure where they're going with it. Because if you dig a tiny bit deeper you see that you know Trump was a part of the deregulatory process that leads to these kinds of things. What's been your take on this past week of this kind of Crescendo of Fox and other right-wing coverage of East Palestine. Well I mean it's purely opportunistic. I think of you correctly. I think it's seen as a convenient cudgel against Biden right? And I think they're being treated mainly just as a way to, you know, make this Administration look bad and to sort of hammer against the usual right-wing bugbear of like we're spending too much money on foreign aid or in this case Ukraine. We're spending too much money on them and we're not doing enough for us. The sort of really obvious Counterpoint to that is as you say the deregulatory push. I mean in addition to it happening under Trump it is just a long-time Republican agenda item, right? I mean in their ideal policy world we would be having an East Palestine every month or so. But you know the reality doesn't quite so much matter but I I think what's interesting in a sort of depressing and unfortunate way. Is that they're roping it into this sort of culture War thing and it's becoming you know I guess to paraphrase Kanye it's becoming a Joe Biden doesn't care about white people thing.