Ari Berman on His New Book, Minority Rule

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🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The GOP is undermining democracy all over the country. The will of the people is being subverted for a loud and active minority. In his new book, guest Ari Berman explains how and where this is happening in America. And, more importantly, what we can do to fight back.

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0:28.1	Hey everybody, we got a great one today you know for a change and this time this time I mean it
0:39.6	Ari Berman of the nation magazine is with us again.
0:44.1	Ari and I discuss his new book,
0:47.3	Minority Rule, which shows how shithead Republicans have been
0:51.4	trying to prevent certain people from voting for years by every means possible.
0:56.7	You know the tools.
0:58.5	Make it harder for the wrong people to vote.
1:01.8	Make them wait in lines, no Sunday voting.
1:05.0	And this goes back to the beginning of our country when deals are struck in our
1:09.4	constitutional convention in Philadelphia to give Southern slave states extra representation
1:16.1	by counting every slave as three-fifths of a person.
1:21.7	And of course this didn't mean that every slave was given three-fifths of a person. And of course, this didn't mean that every slave was given three-fifths of a vote.
1:26.0	No, don't be silly.
1:27.6	They counted as three-fifths of a person only for determining
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