A Conservative View of the Vigilante Right
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Mona Charen discusses the true meaning of conservative and the radical shift in the GOP. Plus, she helps take your calls. Then, a listener mailbag begs us to explore how "normal people" became part of the Jan 6. attack. Host Kai Wright and senior digital producer Kousha Navidar spoke with Seamus Hughes, Deputy Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, to learn more.
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Episode 1: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going? (9/22/2016)
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| 0:00.0 | Is this where it began, the threats to school board members, the kidnapping plots on elected |
| 0:15.3 | officials, did it all start with the lock her up meme of 2016? |
| 0:20.0 | Coming up on the United States of anxiety, conservative columnist Mona Charim talks |
| 0:23.6 | about what she calls perverted patriotism and about the future of conservative politics. |
| 0:28.5 | Are you a conservative who just can't get down with the authoritarian streak running through |
| 0:33.2 | the Republican Party today? |
| 0:35.0 | We'd like to hear from you. |
| 0:36.0 | Also, we got an interesting observation from one of you who was at the Capitol on January |
| 0:40.8 | 6th. |
| 0:41.8 | We'll share what you noticed about the crowd and ask a researcher who's been tracking |
| 0:44.7 | prosecutions what it means. |
| 0:46.7 | The vast majority were the lack of a word pedestrian in nature. |
| 0:50.0 | They're realtors in Texas, they're construction workers in Pennsylvania, they're soccer dads |
| 0:54.0 | in Missouri. |
| 0:55.0 | That's coming up on the United States of anxiety. |
| 0:59.5 | What would you consider a patriotic act? |
| 1:02.1 | I have no idea, neither. |
| 1:03.8 | Representing like where you come from. |
| 1:05.5 | It depends on what patriotism is perceived as, right? |
| 1:09.2 | It's nice when people are out of their country, but I think when patriotism is seen as exclusive, |
| 1:15.0 | then I think it's not really patriotism anymore. |
| 1:17.5 | Would you consider patriotism a good or a bad thing today? |
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