Echoes of the 1994 Midterms in 2022 with Steve Kornacki

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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To understand the partisanship and bitterness of American politics today, we have to consider what happened in 1994, points out Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. That’s the story he tells in a new six-part original podcast series called “The Revolution,” all about how Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich ushered in a wave of confrontation and conservatism. Lucky for us, Kornacki took some time away from the Big Board to walk through the history and distinct structural features of midterms, how we got to this moment and the numerous ways the elections this fall could parallel 1994.

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0:00.0	people identify so strongly with party.
0:02.1	Exactly.
0:02.9	And it means that one of those differences between now
0:05.8	and generation or two ago is being a Democrat
0:08.7	means the same thing roughly wherever you are in the country,
0:11.3	being or Republican means roughly the same thing now.
0:13.7	It just didn't exist like that before.
0:19.5	Hello, and welcome to Wise This Happening with me,
0:21.1	your host, Chris Hayes.
0:22.2	Well, the midterms are upon us.
0:24.9	If you are listening to this on the day this comes out,
0:27.8	they are a week from today.
0:29.6	If you're listening to this after that, they're coming up,
0:32.2	or maybe they happened in the past,
0:33.9	and all of the remarkable insight that we offer on this podcast
0:36.9	will be completely wrong.
0:38.5	So there is something of a shelf life here.
0:40.5	Although midterms are interesting,
0:42.5	both there is the sort of short-term question of
0:44.5	what's happening in the 2022 midterms,
0:46.9	and what's happening in the 2022 midterms.
0:49.6	When obviously the Democrats hold the White House,
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