1187 Steve Benen + News and Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Steve Benen is a producer on The Rachel Maddow Show and the author of The MaddowBlog. Benen’s articles and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Monthly, The American Prospect, Salon.com, and other publications. For his work on TRMS, he has received two Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for four more. He is the author of The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics, a national bestseller. He lives in Vermont.
For as long as historical records have existed, authoritarian regimes have tried to rewrite history to suit their purposes, using their dictatorial powers to create myths, spread propaganda, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes.
Today, as America’s Republican Party becomes increasingly radicalized, it’s not surprising to see the GOP read from a similarly despotic script. Indeed, the party is taking dangerous, aggressive steps to rewrite history—and not just from generations past. Unable to put a positive spin on Trump-era scandals and fiascos, GOP voices and their allies have grown determined to rewrite the stories of the last few years—from the 2020 election results and the horror of January 6th to their own legislative record—treating the recent past as an enemy to be overpowered, crushed, and conquered. The consequences for our future, in turn, are dramatic.
Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important, Steve Benen’s new book tells the staggering chronicle of the Republican party’s unsettling attempts at historical revisionism. It reveals not only how dependent they have grown on the tactic, but also how dangerous the consequences are if we allow the party to continue. The stakes, Benen argues, couldn’t be higher: the future of democracy hinges on both our accurate understanding of events and the end of alternative narratives that challenge reality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody from Las Vegas Nevada where I am kicking off my swing state tour |
| 0:06.6 | and I cannot do it without you especially Cassie Rice and her family who are putting |
| 0:11.2 | me up for the week I've got some real exciting plans and ideas to try to get out to vote here in |
| 0:16.1 | Nevada and other swing states and that'll all get underway today starting today but on the |
| 0:21.3 | show today I've got the great Steve Benin who is one of my favorite |
| 0:24.7 | authors and political writers. His new book is as good as his last one, so so important. |
| 0:30.6 | It's called Ministry of Truth, Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans war on the recent past. |
| 0:35.0 | If you want to skip ahead from news and clips to listen to that right now, it begins at 25 minutes. |
| 0:43.2 | Also just want to mention here at the top that I will be hosting a watch party for tomorrow |
| 0:47.8 | night's debate. |
| 0:48.8 | It's going to be very, very important, exciting, and I will be hosting a watch party for all paid |
| 0:54.4 | subscribers you should be getting an email a link to that like you do every |
| 0:57.3 | week for the hangout I hope to see you tomorrow night the debate is set to be 90 |
| 1:02.1 | minutes on ABC News it starts at 9 p.m. So I think I'll kick off the watch |
| 1:06.8 | party about 8.30, but look for that email if you are a page subscriber. Looking forward to seeing |
| 1:12.4 | you then. But now it's time to get to your headlines and |
| 1:16.0 | sound bites. I'm still doing a full show even though I'm out here in Nevada in the makeshift studio in a bedroom at Cassie's house. |
| 1:24.4 | Very, very happy to be here. |
| 1:26.1 | And now it's time to do what we do every day, |
| 1:28.5 | give you the news and sound bites. |
| 1:30.7 | Let's start with the fact that it's hot here in Las Vegas and California |
| 1:35.2 | and there are wildfires, raging wildfires in both California and a vet have led to |
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