A.B. Stoddard rejoins the show for the three-timer award, as well as to talk, well, politics of all things. What can we expect from Senate Republicans at the start of the new Biden administration. Especially with a vote on whether to convict Donald Trump in the pipeline? We also get some more chronicles in the saga of Mitch McConnell: Machiavellian, principled, or both? And what about the recent flurry of (largely) socially progressive executive orders from the Resolute Desk? Stoddard helps determine what of this recent political news is a signal, and what’s simply noise.

Show Notes:
-Stoddard at RCP
-Stoddard on McConnell
-The Hawaii GOP expresses its support for QAnon
-Is Jim Jordan about to get more influential?
-“The One Where Jonah Calls Matt Gaetz a Steroidal Playmobil Figurine”
-Updates on the Patriot Party
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