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Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Earlier this week the editors of the New Yorker probably to no

one's surprise endorsed the Democrat, Vice President Kamala Harris for

president. The long editorial published in the magazine and on New Yorker.com in

addition to reviewing Harris's virtues and promise made the case that Donald

Trump is simply unfit, morally unfit to hold the office.

If Trump is elected once more,

he'd come to the White House in a spirit of vengeance.

That's his word.

His economic policies, his tariffs and tax cuts for the wealthy,

they'd hammer the middle class with inflation and aggravate the inequality in

this country which is already extremely severe. He'd go on belittling

the climate emergency and leave the people of Ukraine to the tender mercies of

Vladimir Putin. In short he he beat Trump unbound,

a threat to the constitutional order and the national security of the United States.

Recently I spoke on the program with Sarah Longwell, a leader of the Never Trump Republicans.

Longwell sees the MAGA movement as an aberration, even a betrayal of conservative values,

but that's a fringe view now in the Republican Party. The most

influential Republicans see Trump still as their champion. And a key figure here

is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Long before Trump got

serious about politics, Gingrich was the revolutionary who wanted to break

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