28: Governing In Spite of MAGA with Rep. Eric Swalwell
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
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Summary
Jen welcomes Rep. Eric Swalwell to examine the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and its effect on our politics. They lay out how their party believes in ruling rather than governance and is undermining our democracy with attacks on our voting rights, using gerrymandering and lobbying to maintain power. They also break down how the Right has abandoned our allies and weakened our national security by cozying up to Russia, its capitulation to Trump, and their pursuit of farcical impeachments against the Biden Administration. Critically, they pivot to the role young people play in restoring our values and ensuring good governance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room. |
| 0:16.0 | Wow, we sit on the precipice of Thanksgiving, a break I think we all need. And although there's much to be |
| 0:24.2 | glum about, there's much to be thankful for as well. After all, the government did not shut down. |
| 0:31.2 | After all, we have President Biden, who is cogent, skilled, resourceful, leading our country during a time of two |
| 0:41.7 | raging, complex wars. We have an economy that has really returned to vigor much faster than any |
| 0:51.0 | other economy and much faster than many of the so-called experts imagine. |
| 0:56.8 | And I think it is a time in which Democrats understand their own power. |
| 1:02.9 | We saw earlier this month that Democrats over and over again reject the Macavision, |
| 1:15.2 | reject the craziness, reject the extremism, |
| 1:19.4 | reject the Dobbs' view of subjugating women. |
| 1:23.1 | And, oh, that is tremendously positive. |
| 1:31.4 | And I stress over and over again to my listeners, to my readers, that ingesting too much media on social media in particular can be very deleterious not only to your mental health, |
| 1:37.2 | but your understanding of what's going on. |
| 1:39.9 | And there's a lot of nonsense out there. |
| 1:42.7 | There's a lot of kind of displaced anxiety from people who are nervous about the election |
| 1:50.1 | next year, which is understandable. |
| 1:52.7 | But it shouldn't blind us to the real successes Democrats have had, the real strength |
| 1:58.9 | that America has demonstrated, and its ability to sidestep |
| 2:04.3 | disasters, in part because we have at least one party that is functional, that is responsible, |
| 2:12.4 | and that is the Democratic Party. It's not that they're without fault. It's not that they get |
| 2:16.7 | everything right, but they're |
| 2:18.9 | trying. They try to be in the neighborhood in the zip code of the truth. They try to stick to the |
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