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Trump's second term ends in January 2029. That sounds far away. It isn't. The 2026 midterms are seven months from now, and whatever happens in November is going to be the first shot fired in the war over who controls the Republican Party after Trump is gone.
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00:00:01 - Predicting the future successor to Donald Trump
00:01:50 - Comparing JD Vance and Marco Rubio's prospects
00:07:39 - Why outsiders like Ron DeSantis have advantages
00:08:15 - How midterms could neuter the Trump administration
00:12:11 - History of Neocons versus the Reagan Revolution
00:25:29 - Glenn Youngkin as a return to normalcy
00:33:14 - Executive power and the push for strongmen
00:45:21 - Building a unified Vance and Rubio coalition
00:53:17 - Patriotic coffee and the Brew Around brand
01:03:53 - How AI will disrupt the labor market
01:16:48 - Leftist strategies for importing new voting demographics
01:33:00 - Final thoughts and Preordering The Man Book
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