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The Bill Bennett Show

Does the Democratic party need to do an autopsy?

The Bill Bennett Show

Bill Bennett

News, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Bill opens this episode by talking about the Georgia special election and the Democratic party's problems. Then Brian Kennedy of the American Strategy Group joins to talk about the tragic death of Otto Warmbier, what the US should do in response, and the USS Fitzgerald accident. Finally Steve Wynn joins the podcast to talk about the two people who have impressed him the most in his life. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, welcome back to the Bill Bennett Show. Welcome back to this

0:04.9

podcast. Thank you so much for listening. We're growing in numbers. Thanks for

0:08.4

telling your friends. And you can subscribe for free. Just go to Apple

0:12.0

Podcast and subscribe to us okay good let me just

0:16.2

rant for a couple minutes folks it's as I am talking to you it's the morning

0:21.0

after the Georgia election the special election in Georgia.

0:25.8

So much has been said about this.

0:27.2

You probably don't need me commenting on it, but I just want to focus on one feature of it.

0:32.1

First of all, pollsters were were wrong again too close to call. Six

0:34.8

points is not too close to call, I don't think. But you know, that's, we're getting used to it. Don't

0:40.6

pay attention to the pollsters. isn't it interesting the way they

0:43.1

always seem to err the side on which they seem to err that's that's one point the

0:48.8

longer point I want to make is this

0:55.0

the Democrats you know have got to get their act together they've got to do some

0:57.0

self-examination maybe they need this autopsy

1:00.0

of the sorts of Republicans did back when I didn't particularly like that autopsy,

1:04.7

didn't particularly like a lot of the recommendations. But I was thinking of a line from

1:08.7

Hannah Arrant, the great political theorists who said that there's nothing more in the way of a straight jacket

1:16.2

for the mind than an ideological bent.

1:19.4

If you were an ideologue, particularly an ideologue of the left in this case, you may not be able to break out of it.

1:25.0

And I think that's where the Democrat Party is.

1:27.6

The country has moved a little bit left in the last 10, 15 years, I think culturally, more accepting of things. I think certainly on things like

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