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Trump is headed to Georgia this week, where there\u2019s about to be a pair of special elections to decide the balance of the senate. But don\u2019t expect the president to really talk up his Republican, MAGA AF buds, George Conway says. \u201cIt's better for him and better for his ego if they lose.\u201d

Trump has a problem, George explains to Molly-Jong Fast and Rick Wilson on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. Well, two. First, \u201cRepublicans did better than he did\u201d in the general election. Not only does \u201cthat undercut his claim of fraud\u2026 it means that there were significant numbers of Republicans who couldn't stomach him. And that's the reason why he lost and all these other people won.\u201d

So now Trump is hate-tweeting Georgia\u2019s Republican governor and Republican secretary of state. And he\u2019s doing his damnedest to tell his followers that their votes don\u2019t count, that they\u2019re sure to be stolen. \u201cIt was amazing to see [RNC chair] Ronna McDaniel desperately to explain to Republicans why they need to vote in an election that will decide the balance of the Senate,\u201d Molly remarks. 

\u201cIt was like watching a walrus trying to fuck a beach ball. It's so awkward,\u201d Rick replies. 

Then Baratunde Thurston\u2014host of the new podcast How to Citizen\u2014joins Molly for a frank discussion about what led to Trumpism, and how we avoid falling for it again. He\u2019s got a number of structural reforms in mind, to take money out of politics and put in back on the street. But there\u2019s more. 

\u201cI want a lot of tribunals, Molly. I want COVID tribunals because I think there are political leaders who have blood on their hands that they need to be held to account for it. And I want some kind of like media tribunals because a lot of the media establishments created this fiction that is Donald Trump,\u201d Baratunde says.

Speaking of media monsters, Rick and Molly has had it with a certain interview formally known as the \u201cMoney Honey.\u201d

\u201cMaria Bartiromo was once considered a legitimate and serious journalist,\u201d Rick says. \u201cAnd now she's being fitted for a pink hanbok, much like the North Korean propaganda lady who sits at the screen and stares and screams about the glory of the Kim Jong Un family. She allowed Donald Trump to go on television this weekend on the airwaves of Fox and bleed out the craziest horseshit you've ever heard.\u201d

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