From The Silo - What Difference Will an Election Make: Democracy and Human Rights After Trump

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 11 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Originally Aired: June 3, 2020 There is no question that the Trump Administration has been a dramatic departure from past US Administrations on issues like democracy promotion, human rights and protecting press freedoms. Autocrats have been embraced. Press freedoms and free speech have been under siege here in the U.S. What would change if Joe Biden took office next January? In the second of our Agenda 2021 series, Amb. Derek Mitchell, President of the National Democratic Institute, Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America and author of the forthcoming Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All (HarperCollins, July 2020) and Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch discuss global trends, and policy shifts they expect and that they would like to see. Don't miss this important discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the
0:23.9	third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, DC, and from other undisclosed locations
0:31.3	across America and around the world. Hi and welcome to a special episode of Deep State Radio. This is
0:39.1	the second in a series that we are doing focusing on Agenda 2021. In other words, what the Agenda
0:46.6	should be for the next President of the United States to adapt to the world is it's changing but
0:53.3	also to address issues that have arisen in the course of the Trump administration. We're really
1:01.2	privileged to have with us today three experts who can help us deal with the whole range of issues
1:08.6	associated with human rights democracy and press freedom around the world. We have with us
1:15.9	Ambassador Derek Mitchell, who's President of the National Democratic Institute. Hi, Derek.
1:22.5	Hi, David. We have Suzanne Nassel, who is the CEO of Penn America, Hi, Suzanne.
1:29.4	And we have Suzanne's former colleague, Ken Roth, who is Executive Director of Human Rights,
1:35.2	Human Rights Watch, I can't. David, good to be here. The structure of conversation is going to be
1:40.6	pretty straightforward. I'm going to ask a few conversations, but basically I want to start by
1:45.3	saying asking your assessment of where are we in the respective areas that are important to you.
1:51.9	And then I'm going to say where do you think we need to go? Where can we go? So that's the
1:59.0	arc of this conversation. Let me start with you, Suzanne. Where do you think we are with the
2:06.3	regard to the set of issues you focus on at Penn? And what it perhaps is your assessment or your
2:19.0	critique of the Trump administration's handling of those issues? Yes, or thank you. Well, you know,
2:25.5	I would not have imagined this country could fall quite so fast as I think we have in terms of
2:33.4	human rights both at home here domestically and US leadership around the world here at home.
2:40.5	It's a familiar technique that most of your listeners have been living through, you know,
2:45.4	whether it's on immigrants rights and the separation of children from their parents,
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