#1656 How Far He Will Go: Election lies, intimidation, interference, insurrection
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 154 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 9/17/2024
It's not just the threat of the electoral college handing the presidency to the loser of the popular vote, nor the specter of a repeat of a January 6th-like event hanging over the election - there's also copious lies and disinformation including a new and improved nazi-to-Republican-talking-point-pipeline, and fresh new intimidation and voter suppression tactic experiments underway in the laboratories of democracy.
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KEY POINTS
KP 2: Trump Admits He Lost 2020 Election?!? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 9-5-24
KP 4: What Does "Election Interference" Even Mean Anymore? - The Political Scene Podcast - Air Date 9-4-24
KP 7: Republicans caught in BOMBSHELL lie - Brian Tyler Cohen - Air Date 9-9-24
(49:26) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On what puts democracies at risk
DEEPER DIVES
(1:01:09) SECTION A: INTIMIDATION
(1:15:27) SECTION B: INTERFERENCE
(1:54:14) SECTION C: LIES
(2:08:49) SECTION D: ELECTION INTEGRITY
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | It's not just the threat of the Electoral College handing the presidency to the loser of the popular vote, nor the specter of a repeat of January 6th-like |
| 0:16.4 | event hanging over the election. There's also copious lies and disinformation, including |
| 0:22.1 | a new and improved Nazi to a Republican talking |
| 0:25.6 | point pipeline, and fresh new intimidation and voter suppression tactic experiments |
| 0:31.0 | underway in the Laboratories of Labritars of Democracy. |
| 0:34.0 | Sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today |
| 0:37.6 | includes Alex Wagner tonight, the Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:41.3 | Democracy Dett, |
| 0:42.8 | The Political Scene Podcast, Amicus, |
| 0:45.9 | All-In with Chris Hayes, Brian Taylor Cohen, |
| 0:48.8 | and Jumel Bowie. |
| 0:50.2 | Then in the additional deeper dies half the show, |
| 0:52.4 | there will be more in four sections. |
| 0:54.7 | Section A intimidation, Section B interference, |
| 0:58.8 | Section C lies, and Section D election integrity. |
| 1:09.0 | This campaign of rewriting recent history is built on a foundation of pernicious pillars. |
| 1:14.5 | The first is a wholesale indifference toward reality. |
| 1:17.4 | The second is the absence of shame. |
| 1:20.0 | The third is the role of allies. |
| 1:22.2 | And finally, there is the importance of repetition. |
| 1:24.6 | It's such a clear breakdown of how this is happening. |
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