GOP to Cities: Drop Dead
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🗓️ 19 October 2022
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Summary
Republican rhetoric paints America’s cities as cesspools of crime, homeless and, uh, out-of-touch elites, and the party has largely given up courting urban voters. The GOP may be able to hold on to power thanks to voting systems that favor rural areas, but legislating as though their responsibilities stop at the city lines is a growing concern for the Americans who actually live there.
Guest: Henry Grabar, staff writer at Slate.
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| 1:05.4 | I'm going to tell you the story of a guy named Darren Bailey and his very strange decision |
| 1:16.8 | to move himself to a city that he hates. |
| 1:21.1 | Darren Bailey is running for Governor of Illinois. |
| 1:23.9 | He's a Republican and he's never been very secretive about his feelings for Chicago. |
| 1:29.0 | He thinks it's filled with criminals. |
| 1:30.8 | His preferred descriptor is actually hellhole. |
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