The Erick Erickson Show

S15 EP204: Hour 1 - John Thune's Thankless Job, and a Veterans Day Warning to Those Who Want America to Fall

Erick Erickson explains why John Thune cruised to reelection as Senate Republican leader with no challenger: the job was never to push the president's agenda, it is to be

S15 EP204: Hour 2 - Why Your New Home Costs $131,000 More, and the GOP Consultants Who Cashed In While Republicans Lost

Erick Erickson breaks down how building codes written by the manufacturers who profit from them, stacked on Trump's tariffs on Canadian lumber, steel, and aluminum, now a

S15 EP204: Hour 3 - A Veterans Day Warning About Civil War Talk, and Iran Puts Scott Bessent in Its Crosshairs

On Veterans Day, Erick Erickson reads "In Flanders Fields," traces Armistice Day back to the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, and warns the people on the righ

S15 EP203: Hour 1 - Competence Was on the Ballot, and Why Impeaching Pete Hegseth Is the Wrong Fix

Erick Erickson opens with a hotter than expected October CPI inflation report and makes the case that Republicans lost the midterms on competence: suburban voters, Hispan

S15 EP203: Hour 2 - How China Helped Kill a Maryland Data Center, and the Far Left Revolt Against Hakeem Jeffries

Erick Erickson connects the dots between a Chinese Communist Party linked front group, a killed $5 billion AI data center in Landover, Maryland, and the Senate's bipartis

S15 EP203: Hour 3 - Trump Says He Can't Forgive His Enemies, and Who Is Radicalizing America's Young Men

Erick Erickson unpacks why young men broke for Democrats and who is catechizing them online, from Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens to Andrew Tate and a Russ

S15 EP202: Hour 1 - Trump Floats Legal Status for Illegal Immigrants on 60 Minutes as the Base Cries Stolen Election

Erick Erickson breaks down President Trump's 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat, where Trump said his deportation crackdown may have been too tough and floated legal

S15 EP202: Hour 2 - Jensen Huang and the Chinese Spy, Rubio's Warning, and a DACA Deal Conservatives Can Live With

Erick Erickson digs into the Nvidia scandal engulfing CEO Jensen Huang, his reported relationship with a Chinese intelligence operative tied to Megaspeed, the classified

S15 EP202: Hour 3 - Trump's Crypto Fortune and the GOP Corruption Test, Plus the Democrats' Socialist Problem

Erick Erickson makes the case for beating China in AI, from TikTok propaganda and Waymo letter campaigns to Chinese-seeded fears about data centers, then turns to the cor

S15 EP201: Hour 1 - Why Tariffs and Party Kooks Cost Republicans Georgia and Texas, Plus Melania Trump's Ukraine Push

On Open Line Friday, Erick Erickson reminds listeners that Donald Trump is still president for two more years, praises Melania Trump's Ukraine peace diplomacy, and lays o

S15 EP201: Hour 2 - Erick's King for a Day Plan to Fix Congress

On Open Line Friday, Erick Erickson shuts down the third party dream and lays out a king for a day plan to fix Congress: grow the House of Representatives to 1,000 member

S15 EP201: Hour 3 - Why the Church Should Stop Chasing Politics, and Stephen Miller Takes Over for Susie Wiles

On Open Line Friday, Erick Erickson argues that America's political crisis is really a spiritual crisis, telling pastors to stop trading the gospel for a seat at the tabl

S15 EP200: Hour 1 - After the Wipeout: Who Gets Fired, the Corruption Problem, and Reagan's Choice Not an Echo

On the morning after the Republican midterm wipeout, Erick Erickson pushes back on JD Vance's one-cause blame of the Iran war and asks when Pete Hegseth gets fired. He wa

S15 EP200: Hour 2 - Redistricting Backfired on the GOP, and Markets Plunge 1,600 Points as the Cruelty Problem Grows

Erick Erickson shows how the Republican mid-decade redistricting push blew up in the party's face, from Indiana and South Carolina to Georgia and Texas, and how it drove

S15 EP200: Hour 3 - Trump Oversold and Under Delivered, and Why Hope Beats Rage for a Wiped-Out GOP

Erick Erickson says President Donald Trump oversold and under delivered in his second term, and that broken promises on the Iran war, tariffs and the economy are why Repu

S15 EP199: Hour 1 - Why the GOP Got Wiped Out: MAGA's Coalition Collapsed and the Exit Polls Say It Wasn't Just Iran

Erick Erickson breaks down the Republican wipeout in the 2026 midterms, from Texas and Georgia to South Carolina and Kansas, and argues the Trump-era GOP lost the multira

S15 EP199 Hour 2 - "It's Going to Be Okay": Erick Takes Your Calls After the GOP Midterm Wipeout

Calling in from Nashville, Erick Erickson opens the phones the day after the 2026 midterm wipeout. He tells listeners no loss in American politics is permanent, and he pu

S15 EP199: Hour 3 - Day After the Midterm Disaster: Who Gets Fired in the GOP and How You Can Feed a Family

Erick Erickson spends the day after the 2026 midterm wipeout asking the question Republicans are dodging: who gets fired? He takes aim at Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, Ho

S15 EP198: Hour 1 - Election Day: Republicans Finally Show Up, and Why Pastors Should Stop Selling Lesser Evils

On Election Day, Erick Erickson sees surprising Republican turnout in Georgia, Texas, Ohio and Florida, reads Henry Olsen's Washington Post warning of a GOP wipeout, and

S15 EP198: Hour 2 - Republicans Show Up, Buttigieg Breaks Ranks, and Why Both Parties Blame the Voters

On Election Day, Erick Erickson tracks Republican turnout in Georgia, Texas, Ohio, Florida and Nevada, blasts Vivek Ramaswamy and Roger Marshall for torching their own ca