Checks and Balance: Extreme goes mainstream

Checks and Balance from The Economist

The Economist

Politics, News & Politics, News, Us Politics

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, threats against law enforcement surged and an armed man tried to break into the agency’s office in Cincinnati. Election, health-care and school officials are feeling increasingly unsafe doing their jobs. Is America entering a new era of political violence?

Security expert Rachel Kleinfeld assesses the state of political violence today. We take a trip to Idaho to meet a militia leader running for elected office. And political science professor Robert Pape considers how to counter violent actors.

Charlotte Howard hosts with Aryn Braun and James Bennet.

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0:30.6	Deep in the heart of Rolling Texas Hill Country,
0:33.3	Gillespie County has much to celebrate.
0:36.2	This weekend, crowds will gather
0:38.0	for its 134th annual County Fair.
0:41.6	It's the oldest in the state.
0:43.8	They'll be a Ferris wheel, funnel cake,
0:46.0	an Angora goat show, a washer pitching tournament,
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