44: We Must Unite
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Legendary Democratic Strategist and brand new Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, Joe Trippi. They discuss how Joe came to join the Lincoln Project, the importance of setting aside differences to form a pro-democracy coalition, the latest in corporate accountability, and Trump’s dangerous words at a weekend rally in Sarasota, Florida.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Ray Gailan. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:12.6 | legendary democratic strategist and newest member of the Lincoln Project team, Joe Trippie. |
| 0:18.5 | Joe's been at the forefront of movement politics since the 80s and worked for Ted Kennedy, |
| 0:24.0 | Gary Hart, and has been called the man who reinvented campaigning. He's worked on more |
| 0:28.7 | campaigns than we can probably note. Obviously, I think his 2004 work with Howard Dean for |
| 0:34.0 | President changed the way that we all campaigned from that moment to this day and also worked |
| 0:38.5 | for Doug Jones on his 2017 special election. Joe's the host of that Trippie show, available |
| 0:44.8 | on Apple Podcasts and Grover you found them. And Joe, just yesterday you had a op-ed in USA |
| 0:50.6 | to date joining the Lincoln Project. Here the pirate ship as we like to call it as a senior advisor. |
| 0:55.4 | So Joe, welcome back to the show and thanks so much for joining up in the fight. |
| 0:59.9 | Now man, read it's great to be back with you. It's great to be part of the Lincoln Project team. |
| 1:04.8 | And I really think it's important. I said it in the piece that we've got to stop seeing this as |
| 1:10.5 | Republicans versus Democrats, liberals versus conservatives. It really is all of us against |
| 1:16.1 | authoritarian movement led by Trump. That's one of the reasons I wanted to join and try to get |
| 1:21.9 | Democrats and Republicans independence. Everybody to come together recognized the real thread out |
| 1:26.8 | there and joined together to stop it and Lincoln Project is a really good place to fight. |
| 1:32.1 | I want to talk a little bit more about your piece for a moment. And Joe, in this piece, |
| 1:36.4 | your main theme is that politics right now and up to the 2022 election is not about policy. |
| 1:42.8 | It's not about petty politics. It's not about individual histories or past partisan fights. |
| 1:48.0 | It's about the future of democracy and ensuring that it survives. Even when I was a kid, right? |
| 1:53.6 | And I think you and my dad, you're younger than my dad, but somewhat contemporaries in the 80s and 90s, |
| 1:58.9 | there was work across the aisle. The vestiges of blue dog Democrats and Rockefeller Republicans were |
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