Defining the State of the Union

Now & Then

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Society & Culture, History, News Commentary

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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How do small and extreme groups take over the American political conversation? In this final installment of a three-part series on educating citizens, Heather and Joanne look at how reactionary movements utilize bullying tactics to wrest control from the majority. Heather and Joanne offer a comparison between the path to secession at the start of the Civil War, the rise of American Nazi-sympathizing groups in the 1930s, and the current reactionary movements around COVID-19 protocols and the education system. Join CAFE Insider to listen to “Backstage,” where Heather and Joanne chat each week about the anecdotes and ideas that formed the episode. Head to: cafe.com/history For more historical analysis of current events, sign up for the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter, featuring Time Machine, a weekly article that dives into an historical event inspired by each episode of Now & Then: cafe.com/brief For references & supplemental materials, head to: cafe.com/now-and-then/defining-the-state-of-the-union Now & Then is presented by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.6	listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.
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0:58.7	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is now and then.
1:06.2	I'm Heather Cox Richardson, and I'm Joanne Freeman. Today we're going to be talking about a topic
1:12.1	that I suppose won't be much of a surprise to people, although its context has changed.
1:18.2	Heather, when you and I were along with the now and then team, we're pondering what we
1:22.6	were going to be talking about for this episode. Of course, we thought state of the union
1:26.5	addresses, and we thought about the fact that President Biden's address was going to
1:30.7	be coming up on March 1st, and we thought it wouldn't be great to offer context on what
1:35.8	these addresses are and what they mean and how they've been shaped over time and what
1:40.6	the impact has been, and to really talk about what state of the union addresses mean.
1:45.4	Now we're recording this still before the state of the union address. However, after
1:51.4	Russia has invaded Ukraine and after President Biden has made a public statement about that
1:58.2	invasion. So we are at a kind of middle moment here. We still don't know necessarily what's
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