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Listening to America

#1208 We Have Voted

Listening to America

Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Prompted by requests from many Jefferson Hour listeners, this week Clay Jenkinson discusses the outcome of the 2016 election.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone. Both David Swenson and I contacted each other shortly after the election

0:06.2

results were known on Tuesday night and said we've got to do a program. And what we're trying to do in this

0:11.9

program is not tell you how we feel about this necessarily.

0:16.0

I think we're trying to sort it out a little bit and to find some sort of clarification about what it means, what it portends, where it comes from.

0:25.8

And my biggest desire, David, is to legitimize the election and to legitimize the rage, even though I find some of the rage

0:34.7

bewildering and as I say many times in this talk I don't think that Trump was

0:39.9

the best possible embodiment of that rage but But I want it, I want to say that this is how

0:46.1

America works. Sometimes the people get all worked up and they want to make their frustration known in the profoundest possible way and they

0:56.4

have done it.

0:57.4

Yeah, we, there was so much that I had hoped we could talk about and that we didn't get to and it was we started this

1:07.1

because of a post on fans of Thomas Jefferson hour on their Facebook page

1:11.6

like many.

1:13.2

Steve Skervyn asked that we do a show on this,

1:17.3

and he said, I'm looking to the Thomas Jefferson Hour

1:19.3

for Hope, which is flattering in itself.

1:22.1

It is. And I wrote about this you can go to Facebook or go to

1:25.1

Clay Jenkins.com. I have a post. David I'm sent I guess you probably disagree

1:29.9

with one part of it. I do believe that this was this election was a very severe

1:34.7

vote of no confidence for Hillary Clinton. Yeah you know I do I took we didn't talk

1:39.2

about that in the show but I really took issue with your column about that.

1:43.4

You are such a cautious wordsmith and you're so careful about and clear about how you write.

1:52.0

And you know I noticed that you didn't say as you did in the

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