And Now for Something Completely Different: Optimism.

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We know, we know. This is no time for complacency. This is no time to minimize the challenges we face. This is no time to assume anything about the election or its aftermath. We must work hard and be on guard against abuses. But...what if things turn out as the polls suggest they might? What if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and a Democratic Senate and Congress win? Might government, dare we say it, become boring again? Might competency make us turn away from it all out of indifference? And might the experience of the Trump years and resistance to the threat he and the Trumpists have posed to democracy in America have positive consequences, have reminded us what we value in government and our leaders? Might it all have brought some of us closer together? We dare to discuss our guarded optimism in this moment with Rosa Brooks of Georgetown Law Center, Kori Schake of the American Enterprise Institute and Joe Cirincione of the Quincy Institute. Join us. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hi and welcome to the latest episode of Deep State Radio I'm your host David Rothkoff and we have got a great episode for you. I'm in New York City in Washington DC.
0:57.0	We have a wonderful group starting with Corey Schake of the American Enterprise Institute.
1:02.0	Hi Corey. Hello David. And in her wonder recliner in Alexandria,
1:08.4	Virginia, Rosa Brooks, who's seeing the world in the most comfortable way possible.
1:14.1	Hi, Rosa.
1:15.4	Hi, David.
1:16.1	And if you hear a crunching noise,
1:17.8	it's because I'm eating these wonderful things
1:19.9	my children called Pirates Booty.
1:22.2	And they're really really crunchy.
1:24.8	It's not, it's, it's, well we can debate whether that's a healthy lunch or not.
1:31.6	And our friend Joe Serincioni who's now a distinguished fellow at the Quincy Institute, which is I think a cool place that's devoted to not fighting wars. Isn't that kind of the general thrust of the
1:44.7	Quincy Institute Joe that's exactly right we've over-extended ourselves on pointless
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