111: The Democratic World Must Confront the Aggressive Authoritarian
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Comedian and Host of LPTV’s “We're Speaking”, Maya May to answer questions asked by YOU, the members of the Lincoln Project community. Listeners ask about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the future of the GOP, how everyday Americans can join the fight for democracy, and so much more. Plus, what is the deal with Donald Trump’s brand new “Truth Social”. As mentioned during the episode, be sure to check out Joe Trippi’s “Five Reasons for Optimism in 2022”: https://lincolnproject.us/five-reasons-for-optimism-in-2022/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. As we get deeper into 2022, it is time for all of us to do our part, to save |
| 0:06.5 | democracy and to show that America can and will stay on that arc of bending history towards justice. |
| 0:13.8 | I want you to go to jointheunion.us and sign up to help our grassroots efforts. |
| 0:20.3 | Fill out the survey. Tell us where it is you want to help. We'll put you in touch with the people |
| 0:25.0 | who can put you to work. Join theunion.us. Do your part. And now on with the show. |
| 0:39.9 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Gaelin. Today, I'm happy to welcome back |
| 0:45.8 | Maya, May, comedian and host of LPTVs. We're speaking. Maya, welcome back. |
| 0:51.5 | Thanks for having me, Reid. So, Maya, thanks again for teaming up with me to take questions from |
| 0:55.7 | our listeners, our fellow members of the Lincoln Project community. And before we get into our |
| 1:00.3 | questions, I think we shouldn't overlook that we're recording this on February 24th, the first |
| 1:05.6 | day of the war that Russia initiated against a peaceful and democratic Ukraine. And I think we'd |
| 1:11.8 | be remiss if we didn't spend a few minutes talking about that. This is a war of pure aggression. |
| 1:16.8 | Ukraine is a peaceful democracy. It's a young democracy. It is trying its best to climb out of the, |
| 1:23.6 | you know, 20 plus years it was under authoritarian rule. You know, at first Maya, |
| 1:29.0 | Putin said this was about Ukraine potentially becoming a member of NATO that was always |
| 1:33.7 | ironically a red herring. This is really about I think a guy who is old. Well, I think is in some |
| 1:39.6 | ways, Adled and has these like revanchist fantasies of the great Soviet Union of which he was, |
| 1:45.8 | you know, an officer in the KGB somehow coming back to greatness when in fact communism didn't work, |
| 1:52.8 | communism failed. And the only reason we're dealing with this right now is because we have a |
| 1:58.3 | very dangerous man, probably the richest man in the world who has his own army and his own nuclear |
| 2:03.5 | arsenal. And that is what he is. He is not a leader. He is an autocrat. He is a strong man. And |
| 2:10.5 | this is the result of what we're seeing of four years of Donald Trump who was literally trying to |
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