109: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Wanted with Jeremy Peters
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Jeremy Peters, National Politics Reporter at The New York Times and author of, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted. They discuss the GOP’s multi-decade narrative of devolution, how Fox News and the right wing media machine has used identify politics and populism to their advantage, and can Trumpism survive without Trump. To hear more from Jeremy, be sure to pick up your copy of Insurgency here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586398/insurgency-by-jeremy-w-peters/
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| 0:42.4 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today, I'm joined by Jeremy |
| 0:48.2 | Pierce, National Politics Reporter at the New York Times, and author of the new book, |
| 0:52.6 | Insurgency. How Republicans lost their party and got everything they wanted. |
| 0:56.5 | In addition to his work at the Times, Jeremy as an MSNBC contributor has appeared on Washington |
| 1:02.0 | Weekend Review for PBS and has a degree in history and political science from the University of Michigan. |
| 1:07.1 | Go blue. Jeremy, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:12.0 | So Jeremy, I was reading your book, which you can find at any great local bookseller. And it was a |
| 1:18.2 | somewhat painful recitation of the last, I'd say, 15 years of my political life. Maybe even more so. |
| 1:25.7 | I was raised in Washington, DC. My dad worked on Capitol Hill when Republicans were in the minority. |
| 1:32.4 | And you fast forward through that time to the time of Newt Gingrich being minority whip in 91 |
| 1:39.2 | through the 94 election. And then all of the sudden you have this blossoming. And so probably two |
| 1:44.5 | years, if not to the day, very close, you and I were sitting in New York City having a cup of coffee. |
| 1:49.8 | And the Lincoln Project had just launched. And you and I were sitting there talking about, |
| 1:54.6 | okay, well, you're a bunch of Republicans. You're taken on Donald Trump. Remember, this is pre pandemic. |
| 1:59.0 | The Democrats are arguing about universal health care. Trump is being impeached, right? All of these |
| 2:04.4 | things are happening. But there was a real chance that Donald Trump would be reelected. |
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