A Word: Snitch Nation

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

While conservatives win elections, the popularity of their policies on abortion access, LGBTQ rights, and racial equity remains low in many parts of the country. But conservative political leaders are finding ways to enforce those laws, and encouraging ordinary citizens to inform on each other is a major tactic. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by Adam Serwer, the award-winning political essayist at The Atlantic, about how he explored the phenomenon in his recent article “The Rise of the Right Wing Tattletale. Guest: Adam Serwer, staff writer for The Atlantic and author of The Cruelty is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump’s America. Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a word, a podcast from Slate.
0:02.0	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:03.3	Conservative ideas on reproductive freedom, race,
0:06.5	and gender identity aren't winning over hearts and minds.
0:09.6	But they are increasingly being enforced by laws,
0:12.1	particularly in red states, and one of the main tools is
0:15.4	by encouraging citizens to rat each other out.
0:18.5	The models of the societies that conservatives are trying to imitate here are really oppressive regimes
0:23.7	abroad. The things that they have in mind are much closer to the model of
0:27.0	government you see in Russia or Hungary now than in the United States of America
0:31.3	or what the United States of America is supposed to be.
0:34.0	The Conservative push to create a nation of snitches coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson.
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