E102. Doug Schoen Discusses the Looming Threat of the China-Russia Axis

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🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Doug Schoen (author & campaign consultant) drops in to discuss his most recent book The End of Democracy?: Russia and China on the Rise, America in Retreat. He and Bridget have a frank conversation about the fact that we are so divided in this country we are failing to pay attention to the larger threats of Russian and Chinese influence in the world. They cover how a lack of common purpose and a failure to recognize the challenges we face in America puts us at risk, the damage caused by putting politics ahead of the greater good of the country, and the fact that if the US abandons the global stage, other countries will turn to Russia and China who are only too happy to intervene in ways that put our country’s interests at risk. They acknowledge how helpless individuals can feel in the face of such large-scale problems and how we must unite as a country behind some of our core principles, such as liberty and freedom of speech, if we are to have a hope of maintaining national resilience and international influence.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
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0:35.0	This week on the podcast we welcome author Douglas Schoen.
0:39.0	He has been one of the most influential Democratic campaign consultants for over 40 years, a founding partner
0:45.0	and former principal strategist for the internationally known polling and consulting firm Penn,
0:50.4	Schoen and Berlin. He is also a founding partner of Shone Cooperman
0:54.7	research and he is widely recognized as one of the innovators of the modern
0:59.0	polling and research business. His political clients include former president Bill Clinton as
1:03.9	well as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. His new book is
1:08.0	the end of Democracy, Russia and China on the rise America in Ret. We had a fascinating conversation about all
1:16.7	things Russia and China and I as I've said before it felt like I was looking down at Twitter and then looked up and got hit by a bus because
1:26.1	I was crossing the street and didn't realize it.
1:28.5	So enjoy, light-hearted.
1:31.0	I'm with Doug Schone everybody. Welcome to Walkins Welcome. Thank you for coming through. I see you've written quite extensively about the Russia China Access. I can't help but feel like while America is self-destructing
1:46.5	internally there are some bigger problems that we're missing out on paying attention to
1:51.6	well my my take is not only are we self-destructing internally, the Chinese are increasingly
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