Checks and Balance: Year all about it

Checks and Balance from The Economist

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Politics, News & Politics, News, Us Politics

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would probably be the favourite to win. How should we be thinking about the race with a year to go? And how can the world outside of America prepare itself for the possibility of a second Trump term?

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon. They’re joined by Vanderbilt University’s John Sides and The Economist’s Ed Carr.

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0:00.0	This is a free episode of Checks and Balance.
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0:09.0	click on the link in the show notes or look for economist podcasts
0:12.0	in your favorite search engine.
0:13.2	Picture this.
0:17.4	Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:24.0	Now, picture you.
0:27.0	Zooming past it all.
0:29.0	Light and breezy.
0:32.0	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. Book your train journey via
0:38.1	avante westcoast.co. UK. avante west coast feel-good travel. A Vanti West Coast, Feel Good Travel.
0:52.6	The Economist. Every 5th of November, the UK celebrates Guy Fawkes Night,
0:59.6	marking a failed plot by Catholic rebels to blow up the Houses of Parliament and the Protestant
1:04.5	King with it in 1605.
1:07.8	It used to be celebrated in parts of America too, a custom brought over by British settlers in the early 17th century.
1:15.2	At that time, it was very much an anti-Catholic celebration and became known in New England
1:19.9	as Pope's Day, with an effigy of the pontiff burned on the bonfire.
1:25.4	But in 1775, George Washington, in a bid to encourage religious tolerance, expressed his
1:31.5	disapproval.
1:33.0	Pope's Day fell out of fashion.
1:36.4	On November the 5th next year, while Brits are letting off fireworks and lighting their
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