# Derek Thompson: The Party of Vicemaxxing

An episode of [The Bulwark Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1447684472), 2 Jun 2026, 57 min.

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Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immorality. And the Dems are currently in a bit of a moral dilemma of their own over the latest Platner revelations, given the moral imperative of having a Senate that obstructs Trump’s worst policies. Questions of morality also surface with AI, particularly if we allow machines to do the thinking for us. Plus, the Dems need a Wemby, an American debt crisis seems inevitable, the global fertility crisis may be too hard to fix, and why is the English-language world the most unhappy? Derek Thompson joins Tim Miller. show notes • “The Next Level” pod will be out later today • Derek’s piece on vicemaxxing • Derek on the great AI cost panic • The “Plain English” pod, hosted by Derek • “Mere Christianity,” by C.S. Lewis • “Pluribus”

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