Heather Cox Richardson: The Reality Show-ification of the Government

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We are seeing in real time what it looks like to turn a democracy over to an oligarch, namely the unstable guy from South Africa who thinks he's going to be emperor of the universe. It's also authoritarian for that one unstable guy to threaten members of congress with job loss if they vote to provide hurricane relief or to rebuild part of the interstate highway system. Plus, the need for a pro-democracy media ecosystem, the difference between liberal and left, and the terribleness of the William McKinley era.
Heather Cox Richardson joins Tim Miller.
show notes
Some of Heather's books:

“Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America"

"Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre"

"West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War"

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1:01.2	Hello and welcome to the bulwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. I couldn't be more delighted
1:09.9	to welcome to the bulwark, the professor of history at Boston College teaching 19th century American history. She
1:15.3	also writes the newsletter, letters from an American on Substack with over 1.8 million
1:20.4	subscribers. Her books include Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America. It's Heather
1:26.1	Cox Richardson. How are you doing? I'm good and I'm so
1:28.8	pleased to be here. Ah, so delightful. Um, obviously, you know, given the fact that lots of people
1:34.7	reading your newsletter, many are familiar with you, but I kind of just wanted to start for those who
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