A Bet Against Reality

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

President Donald J. Trump was voted into office by an impatient electorate that had no ability to measure his rhetoric against a political record. Slate political writer Will Saletan predicts that national impatience will not be kind to Mr. Trump. Saletan is the author of Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War. U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., joined dozens of his colleagues boycotting the inauguration. He explains what Democrats can do to draw attention to Mr. Trump's conflicts of interest. Michael Waldman penned two inaugural addresses for former President Bill Clinton. Waldman says Mr. Trump's speech was remarkable for what it didn't include: any mention of the Constitution, liberty, or democracy. "Which is something that presidents do," Waldman said. "It's almost like a religious incantation in these speeches." For the Spiel, some non-Trump news. How Gambia got its groove and the fight against fake news in Sweden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.8	It's Friday, January 20, 2017 from Slate.
0:11.4	It's the Gisdy Mike Pesca.
0:13.4	Today, I saw a new president give a short blunt,
0:16.5	un-nuanced, often untrue address to a citizenry
0:19.2	all of whom he represents,
0:21.0	but many of whom he is unconcerned with.
0:23.2	Others interpreted it differently.
0:25.7	They saw things a bit deeper in there.
0:28.8	Matthew Continental of the Washington Free Beacon
0:32.2	saw a quote of a triprative critic
0:34.3	of the post-Cold War international system
0:37.2	where the architects of that system
0:38.6	see it as a bulwark of stability and global prosperity.
0:42.1	Trump sees it as diminishing the United States
0:44.2	in favor of foreign countries
0:45.5	and an international class of wealthy, political
0:48.2	and financial elites.
0:49.9	Anthony Rand of the Urban Institute notes
0:52.7	Trump's speech was full on nationalist paleocon vision
0:56.7	that repudiates the current Neocon influence
0:59.2	conservative orthodoxy.
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