Harris vs. The Right Over Who’s More For Freedom

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Despite Republican claims on "freedom" as a value, VP Kamala Harris is leaning into the word on the campaign trail. CUNY's Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti talks about the struggle over the use of the word in U.S. politics and what left and right mean when they use it.

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0:00.0	From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.
0:08.1	This is my daily politics podcast.
0:10.9	It's Wednesday, August 14th.
0:14.3	Have you noticed that on the campaign trail,
0:17.3	Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning into the word freedom.
0:21.6	And it is a fight for freedom.
0:24.6	Freedom!
0:26.6	Across our nation, we have been witnessing a full-on assault on hard-won,
0:35.6	hard-fought freedoms and fundamental rights.
0:38.3	The freedom to vote, the freedom to be safe from gun violence,
0:45.3	the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride, and the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body
1:01.0	and not have her government tell her what to do.
1:10.0	A fight for freedom.
1:15.2	Harris at a recent rally with a litany of kinds of freedom,
1:19.2	as you hear there that she says are in danger that she wants to protect.
1:23.5	Interesting choice of a word that in recent times has been highlighted more by Republicans, right?
1:29.2	For example, the most right-wing group in Congress calls itself what?
1:32.8	The Freedom Caucus.
1:34.6	Forty years ago, Ronald Reagan as president defined freedom as getting the government off your back.
1:40.6	He used that phrase domestically and fighting the Soviet Union in the name of freedom internationally.
1:46.8	A decade ago, the Republican Tea Party movement released a manifesto with the words lower taxes and less government on the cover.
1:55.5	That was their core goal with the word freedom.
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