France vs USA When "Democracy Is At Stake"

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Mike Pesca

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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In the United States, we're told that democracy is "on the ballot." But how do the very people making those claims enjoin the battle to save it? In France, they pulled back from a far right victory. We're joined by Yascha Mounk, the Editor in Chief of Persuasion, a Johns Hopkins Professor, and author of, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, July 11th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.0	It's the gist. I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.0	Joe Biden's excuses for his poor debate performance were that he was under the weather, but also
0:15.7	that he was traveling across so many time zones in the run-up and to that it was late, late in the day.
0:22.2	CNN and the New York Times reporting four days ago, quote,
0:24.8	President Joe Biden told Democratic governors during a meeting at the White House
0:28.6	on Wednesday, the part of his plan going forward is to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so that he can
0:34.1	get more sleep according to three sources briefed on his comments. Well okay.
0:39.1	Tonight's press conference is right there in Washington. It's at his house and it's at 6.30 p.m.
0:46.4	Eastern time. Good scheduling. Now this means the timing, great for Biden, but it means it's close to when our show posts.
0:56.1	The show will be over and then I'll do the press conference, but you're going to want to hear
1:00.9	my thoughts on the press conference, or maybe it's more the case that I'm going to want to tell you.
1:05.0	I can't live with not knowing but I know I'm going to I'm going to pretend that you can't either.
1:11.0	So here's what we'll do. I'm leaving an option right here
1:15.2	in the top of the show to break in, this will be in about 45 seconds, break in with
1:20.1	emergency analysis if necessary.
1:22.8	If the press conference is fine or fine norm for the fact that Joe Biden is 81
1:26.6	and talks like he does, even on great days, I'm going to leave it alone.
1:29.8	What I will do is I play a song sung by my neighbor Zoe and her friend Gilly really more
1:34.7	than a song a life lesson if you will about respecting boundaries so if in
1:39.4	about ten seconds from now you either hear me break in with breaking news about the
1:43.1	Biden press conference disaster or I guess the lightning strike of
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