{"podcast":{"title":"The Court of History","slug":"the-court-of-history-7648009","podcast_index_feed_id":7648009,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/MTH8378930776","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/12c20da4-eb46-11f0-9833-d35b3bc1e46c/image/f037e2f5c376dc4b477fd206193226fd.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"MeidasTouch Network","episode_count":131,"summary":"Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz, renowned political historians, invite you into their conversations with the most cutting edge and authoritative guests at the crossroads of political, history and the constitutional crisis.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T12:23:51.761895+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009"},"episode":{"title":"Trump Destroys GOP as Texas Republican Empire Collapses","slug":"trump-destroys-gop-as-texas-republican-empire-collapses","published_at":"2026-06-02T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009/trump-destroys-gop-as-texas-republican-empire-collapses","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/MMN23/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH6236131511.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/arttrk.com/p/MMN23/prfx.byspotify.com/e/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/MTH6236131511.mp3","summary":"Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s article in the Guardian on the rise and fall of John Cornyn as the rise and fall of the Republican Party, how the GOP in Texas was really built, Cornyn’s role in the building of the machine of Mitch McConnell, and how Trump and MAGA has trashed the party to exalt him. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN?sub_confirmation=1 Become a member of Legal AF YouTube community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJgZJZZbnLFPr5GJdCuIwpA/join Become a member of the Legal AF Substack: https://michaelpopok.substack.com/20off Follow Legal AF on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/legalafmtn.bsky.social Follow Michael Popok on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mspopok.bsky.social Subscribe to the Legal AF podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/legal-af-by-meidastouch/id1580828595 Subscribe to the Intersection with Michael Popok podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 Subscribe to Unprecedented with Michael Popok and Dina Doll podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unprecedented-by-legal-af/id1867023089 Subscribe to Court of History with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz podcast feed here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-court-of-history/id1867022920","meta_description":"Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz discuss Sidney’s article in the Guardian on the rise and fall of John Cornyn as the rise and fall of the Republican Par…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1818,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-court-of-history-7648009/episodes/trump-destroys-gop-as-texas-republican-empire-collapses/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-court-of-history-7648009/trump-destroys-gop-as-texas-republican-empire-collapses.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}