Breaking the States | The Roundtable Ep. 65
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
With control of Congress and the presidency, Democrats have taken the first steps toward making Washington, D.C. the fifty-first state. But there is even more here than meets the eye, and the rationale behind the Left’s push to transform voting is truly sinister. Our editors analyze the situation and underlying arguments.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the roundtable, the governing logic behind all this the tealos |
| 0:05.6 | purpose is to break the power of the states. |
| 0:08.4 | There's a very potent and sort of calculated reason behind invoking Jim Crow over and over |
| 0:14.6 | again in all of this because yeah, we make these carve outs and develop these carve outs |
| 0:19.6 | over time in our system for prohibiting the states from exercising the latitude granted |
| 0:25.0 | them under a federal government to such an extent that they violate the eternal principles |
| 0:29.6 | that are enshrined in our federal regime. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable, the publisher and editor's podcast here at |
| 1:02.9 | the Claremont Institute or the American Mind at the Claremont Institute. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm Ryan Williams your host publisher of the American Mind and the Claremont Review |
| 1:10.0 | Books and president of the Claremont Institute. |
| 1:13.9 | I am joined as always the whole gang's back back in the saddle Matthew Peterson vice |
| 1:19.2 | president of education and founding editor of the American Mind James Pullis executive |
| 1:23.3 | editor of the American Mind Seth Baron managing editor of the American Mind and Spencer |
| 1:29.2 | Clayton associate editor of the American Mind and the Claremont Review of books. |
| 1:34.4 | I have a bit of lead in material today and then we'll get after it. |
| 1:38.4 | I wanted to open with this sort of interesting development of recent weeks about governors |
| 1:46.4 | in red states and election integrity. |
| 1:49.9 | It plays in a bit with governors in red states and their efforts to combat this trans rights |
| 1:59.2 | problem or the hysteria around transgender rights and sports and all that. |
| 2:03.9 | But the voting one is very much on everyone's mind right now. |
| 2:08.0 | So I just have a I'm going to tie all these things together and and with a bit of historical |
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