Chapter 1: The Divide

The Wilderness

News, Politics

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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What will it take to save democracy in 2022 and beyond? The MAGA movement is one of the greatest threats to American democracy. But one of the greatest divides in American politics is between the minority of voters who follow politics closely and the vast majority who don’t. In order to win the midterms, Democrats will have to reach that majority.

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0:00.0	I'll admit, there was a brief moment where I didn't think we'd need another season of the wilderness.
0:05.3	After four long tense days, we can now project the winner of the presidential race.
0:11.1	Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe Biden.
0:14.0	Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe Biden. Joe Biden.
0:16.0	Tonight, we're seeing all over this nation, all cities, and all parts of the country,
0:20.7	a now-ploring joy of hope, renewed faith, and tomorrow. Bring a better day.
0:26.3	Black voters in Georgia turned out in record numbers to vote for Reverend Rafael Warnoch
0:30.8	and John Alsop, giving Democrat a majority in the Senate.
0:34.9	Remember that feeling? I think it lasted about a day.
0:41.5	They've got the gallows stood upside this Capitol building. It's time to start fucking using them.
0:45.8	Start hunting them down one, five, one.
0:52.5	Two years later, I think it's fair to say that things haven't settled down all that much.
0:56.0	Former President Trump's baseless claims about his 2020 election defeat are trickling down
1:00.9	to the next cycle of Senate races. That election was rotten to the core. We all know it, right?
1:08.2	You know that, right? Our attorney general declared a winner before one vote was counted,
1:13.8	and so the whole process has been corrupted. This is the year we're going to take back the House.
1:18.9	We're going to take back the Senate. We're going to take back America.
1:27.2	And in 2024, we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful House that happens to be white.
1:37.6	Mag is a threat to our country, not the Democratic Party.
1:43.2	That's Democratic political strategist Michael Podhorzer, a senior advisor to the AFL CIO,
1:48.4	who Time Magazine called the Architect of a Shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.
1:54.2	Basically, he was part of a team of strategists and legal experts who saw Trump's coup coming
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