2024: The Inflection Election

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Mike talks with Mark Green, founder of The Democracy Project, twice-elected Public Advocate for New York City, and the author of multiple books, the latest being, The Inflection Election: Democracy or Fascism in 2024?, which they discuss in this episode. Topics Mike and Mark discuss include: - the importance of the 2024 presidential election - if Donald Trump is a fascist - if Trump is an existential threat to American democracy - why Mike has more faith in the Supreme Court than Mark does - the rise of right-wing populism in democracies around the world - election integrity and public faith in elections - responsibility for the ‘culture wars’ - if Trump is so awful, why nearly half of all voters support him The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the Sustainable Planet podcast, as well as the free Sustainable Planet Substack. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.1	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on
0:46.7	American politics and policy.
0:48.8	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski.
0:52.6	My guest today is Mark Green, founder of the Democracy Project,
0:56.2	twice elected public advocate for New York City, and the author of a bunch of books, the latest of
1:02.0	which is the inflection election, democracy or fascism in 2024, which we'll be discussing today.
1:09.1	Mark Green, welcome to the show.
1:16.1	I'm delighted to be here, Michael. Thank you. So I always like to start with titles because I think they, well, they're there for a reason. And so the inflection election. And I guess when I read that
1:22.8	title, I thought, you know, it seems like every election is being billed these days as the most important election ever. So I thought, you know, it seems like every election is being billed these days as the most important
1:29.1	election ever. So I thought that's a good place for us to jump off. Why do you see
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