Buttigieg Could’ve Improved Airline Issues And Just…Didn’t

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Pretty much everyone begged Pete Buttigieg to alleviate airline issues and better regulate the airlines like Southwest. He didn’t. David Sirota, founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever news site, joins this episode of The New Abnormal to share his take on the Department of Transportation Secretary’s inaction, everything he could have done to stop the chaos, and all of the ways he could regulate airlines like Southwest if he wanted to. Also in this episode! Jared Yates Sexton, co-host of the Muckrake podcast and author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power Paranoia and The Coming Crisis, joins the podcast to break down how the right became so powerful, and why we need to get angrier about so-called “normal” Kevin McCarthy and Ron DeSantis—or else.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:05.4	objector.
0:06.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an
0:14.4	unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.6	And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:22.0	the rails.
0:23.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
0:27.2	people in politics, media and beyond.
0:29.9	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
0:35.3	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.3	What an interesting show we have today.
0:39.1	First we're going to talk to 11 news is David Sarota, who's been extensively covering
0:42.6	the fuckery with the airlines and the regulation needed to fix them.
0:45.7	Then we'll talk to Jared H. Sexton, co-host of the Muk-Rake podcast in author of The
0:50.1	Midnight Kingdom, a history of power, paranoia and the coming crisis.
0:54.0	And he's going to talk to us about America's gradual descent into an authoritarian nightmare.
0:58.8	First, let's have some fun.
1:00.6	Andy, there is nothing that I love more than my favorite gaslighting holiday for Republicans,
1:09.4	which is MLK Day.
1:11.5	And why do I say that?
1:13.3	Because it is the day that every Republican loves to get on social media, loves to get
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