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The Michael Steele Podcast

Can We Please Return to Common Sense Politics? (with Leigh McGowan, AKA PoliticsGirl)

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Leigh McGowan AKA PoliticsGirl speaks with Michael Steele about how conservatives must destroy MAGA in order to get their party back, the evolution of the Harris Walz campaign, Republicans like Liz Cheney voting Democrat this fall and how we can begin to return to common sense politics.

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Check out Leigh's New York Times bestseller, "A Return to Common Sense: How to Fix America Before We Really Blow It" here: https://www.amazon.com/Return-Common-Sense-America-Before/dp/1668066432

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want your conservative party back if you're like, but I am a Republican I've always been a Republican you're like your party was consumed by MAGA. It is gone.

0:10.0

If you want your party back you must destroy Maga and to do that that's not just not voting for Donald Trump

0:16.2

that's voting for Democrats up and down the ballot until Maga an election deniers and these perpetual liars are destroyed.

0:24.0

Well folks you know there's a there's an election coming up you may have heard about that

0:36.1

I'm sure many of you are excited and if you're not I need you to be excited I need you to get

0:40.4

excited right now and in the process of getting ready for this election, I thought was important to have a conversation about the one thing we don't see a lot of use of these days, and that's common sense. So we have the author of a return to common sense how to fix America before we really blow it. My friend Lee McGowan. Now you may have seen her from her infamous kitchen and the

1:06.4

rants from her kitchen table where she passionately explains politics in a

1:12.1

very understandable and accessible way.

1:15.8

So Lee is that politics girl and she brings that insight in that common sense to our conversation.

1:24.4

Her work aims to educate and inspire voters

1:27.4

to re-engage in the political process

1:30.0

in order to create a kinder and more informed society.

1:33.3

Hell, what's wrong with that?

1:34.4

Right? Why can't we be kinder?

1:36.4

Why can't we be more informed?

1:38.6

Lee McGowan is my guest as we get into a return to common sense with her coming up right after this.

1:47.0

Hey folks, welcome to the Michael Steele podcast.

1:51.0

So you know know you see people on on various platforms and you're like I

1:59.1

really I really hope I get to meet this person at some point.

2:03.8

And I finally got that, I got that wish come true for me

2:11.1

at the awards for the webbies.

2:15.0

I met Lee McGowan.

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