Andrew Sullivan: “America Is on the Edge of Violence”

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Andrew Sullivan is a British-American political commentator and author. A former editor of The New Republic, he is the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish, in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to platforms such as Time, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast. After a spell at New York magazine, he ultimately launched his Substack newsletter, The Weekly Dish, in July 2020: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:20.3	People showing up in maths that public demonstrations is a very scary fact.
0:24.1	People showing up at people's homes,
0:26.6	invading people's private spaces for political reasons. That's a very alarming fact.
0:31.9	These are signs that liberal democracy is becoming extinct. Andrew, you still sound
0:37.7	optimistic about this country. And there's people who are not, why are you optimistic?
0:42.6	I'm not optimistic. I have hope. You have hope. There is a distinction between those two.
0:46.7	The first amendment means that at some point, unlike you guys, we will always have the right to
0:52.1	air, criticism of whatever is happening, which to my mind is the only real guarantee of preventing
0:57.6	disaster. For the last, however many elections, I look at the candidates which have been presented
1:03.7	to us by both left and right and go, is this really the best America has to offer?
1:09.5	You're on the right. You're going to vote for left wing out of a Trump?
1:12.0	Yes. And you're going to, so that's the option.
1:22.5	Andrew Sullivan. Welcome to Trigonometry. Welcome back.
1:27.0	Thank you. Welcome to Washington, DC.
1:28.8	Thank you. We're all in a very good mood.
1:31.3	We are. It's beautiful out there. I mean, it's a lot of pollen.
1:34.7	Yeah. It's a sort of arboreal bucarky out there.
1:38.5	Certainly is. Told you he's in a good mood.
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