Having the Courage to "Make Good Trouble"
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Elephant in the Room this week is a welcome one -- it's courage. Rick reflects on the positive events of this week, highlighting Cory Booker's strength, courage, and conviction as he rewrote history by beating Strom Thurmond's record while sharing stories about what America has become under the current Trump administration. In the absence of fear, courage would not exist. Cory beating out a racist's former filibuster record is risky, but it's the kind of courage Americans need right now. To shake things up and to find the courage to make "good trouble." John Lewis would be so proud.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, I'm in New York today, so as we go through this elephant in the room, you may hear |
| 0:06.3 | sirens, vacuums, screaming, ritual chanting. God knows, it's New York City. |
| 0:12.5 | But, so pardon me if you hear any background noise. |
| 0:15.5 | We did our best to get a quiet room, but here we are. |
| 0:19.1 | Your task will not be an easy one. |
| 0:24.4 | Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped in battle-hearted. |
| 0:28.4 | There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. |
| 0:31.1 | There is the United States of America. |
| 0:35.0 | Good night and good luck. |
| 0:39.2 | Folks, I talk a lot about courage. |
| 0:45.8 | I, as a practicing stoic, believe that courage is the highest personal virtue you can attain. |
| 0:56.2 | I think that all the other virtues that you can either be born with or strive for all descend from courage. If you are willing to be bold, |
| 0:59.0 | if you are willing to stand for things that matter, |
| 1:02.4 | if you are willing to put yourself in political |
| 1:06.5 | or financial or even physical danger |
| 1:09.6 | to oppose something that is evil, you're displaying courage. |
| 1:13.9 | The elephant in the room this week is having the courage to make good trouble. |
| 1:22.8 | And a lot of the time in our country, we mistake courage for bravado. |
| 1:27.2 | We mistake it for bluster. we mistake courage for bravado. |
| 1:27.6 | We mistake it for bluster. |
| 1:29.0 | We mistake it for loudness. |
| 1:31.4 | And Trump is the master of that. |
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