3607 - The Rural Vs. Urban Threat To Democracy w/ Suzanne Mettler

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Sam Seder

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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It's News Day Tuesday on The Majority Report

On today's program:

As airports remain in chaos due to the DHS shutdown, Trump has deployed ICE agents to assist TSA agents (stand around aimlessly).

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) says that the Senate had agreed on a deal to fund everything but ICE, which can be funded through reconciliation, but Trump shut it down. Trump has been very forceful in his opposition to any deal that doesn't include the SAVE Act which of course has nothing to do with DHS funding.

Suzanne Mettler, Political Science Professor at Cornell University, joins the program for a conversation about her book co-authored with Trevor E. Brown, Urban Versus Rural: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy.

In the Fun Half:

The X account Call to Activism has leaked a video of Zoom meeting between Chip Roy, who introduced the SAVE Act, admitting that his chief of staff has had an extremely difficult time getting a real ID.

Trump pits Stephen Miller and Kash Patel against each other in an ass kissing competition.

all that and more

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0:00.0	It is Tuesday, March 24th, 2000, 6th, my name is Sam Cedar.
0:16.6	This is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:20.0	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America,
0:27.9	downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:30.1	On the program today, Suzanne Metler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at the Government Department at Cornell University,
0:40.3	co-author with Trevor Brown of the book Rural versus Urban, The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy.
0:49.3	Also on the program today, Iran Wary fake negotiations as the bombing rages on.
1:02.1	The fact that there's still about 2,500
1:05.2	of an expeditionary force,
1:10.1	or Rangers, I think, headed towards that region may be part of their weariness.
1:17.1	TSA wait times explode at airports all around the country.
1:25.6	Trump deploys ice to the airports to presumably just watch.
1:32.3	After killing the DHS funding deal, Trump reverses.
1:38.3	Republicans seem to think a deal may be imminent and seeing as how they're all supposed to go on vacation soon it very well
1:45.2	may be speaking the senate mark wayne mullen confirmed as the new dhs head the oklahoma
1:54.5	governor appoints a natural gas executive to be the no senator.
2:07.7	Supreme Court primed to limit mail-in voting as Trump mails in his Florida special election ballot.
2:10.5	Trump White House gives a billion dollars to cancel a wind farm and funnel that money to oil drilling.
2:25.3	Conservative Fifth Circuit throws out an FTC order directing into it to stop using deceptive ads for turbotax.
2:39.1	Georgia woman charged with murder after allegedly taking an abortion pill.
2:44.4	All this and more on today's majority report.
2:49.9	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
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