43: Bringing The War Home with Professor Kathleen Belew

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Jen welcomes Professor Kathleen Belew to lay out the history of post-war white power movements in the United States leading up to MAGA, QANON conspiracy theories, and the 1/6 insurrection. They discuss how these groups recruit followers, their relationship to Trump, and the role of former military members, religion, and women in their organizations. More importantly, they explore the part that journalism, properly understood free speech, and the judicial system play in limiting their growth and ensuring that they never take control of our country.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's Green Room. Lots of news today. For starters, Kristen Sinema,
0:16.9	who is now an independent from the great state of Arizona, has decided she will not run for
0:22.4	re-election to the Senate. Good news for Democrats. That means Ruben Gallejo, who is an excellent
0:28.2	candidate, will have a clear field and will be going up against Kerry Lake, who is a crackpot,
0:34.4	if you recall from 2022, and certainly a MAGA loon. So what other news do we have?
0:42.7	The Supreme Court this week, as we expected, decided that they would not knock Donald Trump
0:50.0	off the ballot, but the way in which they did it and the internal politics of the court were fascinating.
0:56.9	All they had to do was make a technical decision that the states cannot use Section 3 of the 14th
1:07.2	Amendment to knock a candidate off the ballot. That makes sense, after all, because you don't want
1:12.1	one state deciding one way and another state deciding another. But they went even further.
1:18.1	They said, you have to have Congress act before you could knock someone off the ballot. That wasn't
1:23.8	necessary, and it got the dander up of three of the more progressive justices who pointed
1:30.4	out this was totally unnecessary and they seemed to be coddling as they put it insurrectionists
1:36.9	meaning Donald Trump why should Congress have to act doesn't have to act for other portions of
1:43.3	the 14th Amendment this This seemed to be their
1:45.9	way of completely satisfying, diffusing the anger of the Maga Crazes who would storm the Supreme
1:53.5	Court if they actually applied the letter of the 14th Amendment. So it was pretty blatant. It was good
1:59.9	that the three justices called them out for it.
2:03.8	And what's even more interesting is Justice Amy Coney Barrett, no liberal she, kind of weighed in to
2:11.5	say, I don't think the majority should have gone that far, but gosh, let's not shriek about it,
2:19.6	meaning her more progressive colleagues.
2:26.8	It was a weird thing to do, and really gratuitous. She could have either joined in the concurrence or kept her mouth shod, but I think it's a good thing, actually. I think she's showing
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