62: Understanding The Rise of Demagogues with Adam Hochschild
Jen Rubin's Green Room
Jen Rubin's Green Room
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Adam delves into the factors that fueled fear and prejudice during World War I, including the conflict between nativists and immigrants, racial tensions, and the conflict between business and labor. He also discusses the role of figures like Louis F. Post and J. Edgar Hoover, as well as the lasting impact of the Immigration Act of 1924.
Jen & Adam chat about how we all learn from history to prevent the repetition of such events.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's green room. |
| 0:14.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:15.5 | Oh, my, my, my. |
| 0:17.0 | Where are we? |
| 0:17.9 | So much in the news. |
| 0:20.1 | We have had the horrendous assassination attempt on Donald Trump. |
| 0:25.5 | We have had the naming of a right-wing fanatic, no surprise there, as Trump's vice president in the person of J.D. Vance, a man who does not want to have exceptions for rape or incest in a nationwide ban on abortion. |
| 0:41.9 | We had today, as we record, a conviction of Senator Bob Menendez on 18 federal accounts and the calls for |
| 0:51.4 | Democrats for him to resign. |
| 1:00.5 | Unlike Republicans, they don't think convicted criminals should be in positions of authority. |
| 1:14.4 | And, of course, we have Eileen Cannon, the judge in the Mara O'Lago case, who has decided that Clarence Thomas's concurrence in the immunity case was not so wild and crazy and insane, and she's going to cite it and dump the case against him for Espionage Act violations. |
| 1:22.0 | That's right. |
| 1:22.8 | After all this time, the special counsel law is unconstitutional, she says. The opinion is so badly reasoned and so |
| 1:31.9 | dishonest. She says he's acting like a private citizen. No, Jack Smith is not a private citizen. He's an |
| 1:38.9 | employee at the Justice Department. He's subject to the same Justice Department rules as everyone |
| 1:43.4 | else. He reports to the Attorney General. |
| 1:45.9 | What is she talking about? |
| 1:47.9 | She's auditioning, folks, because what else is going on this week? |
| 1:51.5 | It's the Republican National Convention. |
| 1:54.0 | So she is auditioning for the 11th Circuit or maybe even the Supreme Court in the second |
| 1:58.8 | Donald Trump term, should there be such a hard thing. |
| 2:02.6 | And I think it's obvious to everyone that, first of all, Jack Smith made a mistake in filing in |
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