16: How We Got Here: The Origins of Trumpism October 30, 2020

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

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Politics, News

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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A deep dive into how the Republican Party became the party of Donald J. Trump. Mea Culpa will investigate the birth of a movement with no persistent ideology other than its leader. Former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh joins Michael to explain how the Tea Party veered off course abc was swallowed by Trump. All this, plus it's frightening end. Also, make sure to check out Mea Culpa: The Election Essays for the definitive political document of 2020. Fifteen chapters of raw and honest political writings on Donald Trump from the man who knows him best. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M5VKQ6T/ For cool Mea Culpa gear, check out meaculpapodcast.com/merch

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0:00.0	This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to Mayacolpa Investigates.
0:27.1	On today's episode, we'll examine how the Republican Party became the party of Donald
0:31.8	J. Trump.
0:33.1	History will record the political shift that has occurred, not as an aberration, but instead
0:38.5	a natural evolution of where the party was already headed on its own.
0:42.8	The sad truth is that this drift towards Trump did not happen overnight.
0:46.9	The preconditions existed well before 2016, going back to 2008 and the nomination of Sarah
0:53.0	Palin and the rise of the Tea Party.
0:55.8	He was here amongst the fringes of the party, from the House Freedom Caucus and CPAC that
1:01.0	Trumpism was born.
1:02.9	But unlike past leaders who dominated the party, Barry Goldwater in the 1960s and Ronald
1:08.7	Reagan in the 1980s, Trumpism has no specific ideology beyond the whims of its leader.
1:14.7	Before Trumpism, there was the Tea Party which itself claimed an ideology but was in reality
1:44.0	living up royalties.
2:00.3	At first, it was partly about opposing Obama's economic policies for closure relief, tax increase, and health reform.
2:28.3	It was partly about opposing immigration, but the Tea Party also challenged establishment Republicans.
2:34.3	Several times, these groups helped power little known far-right primary contenders to shocking primary wins over Republican politicians deemed to be sellouts.
2:44.3	The Tea Party also challenged the Tea Party to sellouts.
2:56.3	Those candidates didn't always win office, but their successful primary bids certainly struck fear into the hearts of many other GOP incumbents, and then it made many of them more deferential to the concerns of conservative voters.
3:08.3	Furthermore, many Republican voters also came to believe sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly that their party's national leaders tended to sell them out at every turn.
3:19.3	I live for America, I work for America, and I love this country, and I can stand socialism, I can stand communism. The only good communist is a dead communist.
3:29.3	That talk radio and a growing right wing media helped stoke the perception goaded on by Fox News, which recognized that it had immediately become the party of rage.
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