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The Katie Halper Show

Historian Matt Karp: "Woke Goldman Sachs" Democratic Coalition Keeps Losing

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a live taping we did with PRINCETON historian Matt Karp. Matt talks about Frederick Douglas, the Civil War, the inspiration he takes from the periodic over throw of the ruling class, themistake the Dems make in courting woke Goldman Sachs, and the value of "Bernie Would have Won". Matt's analysis of the Kansas special election is especially relevant to Ossoff's loss.

Transcript

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This is an old live taping of the Katie Helper show that we did with Matt Karp, historian, and writer.

0:08.0

What's really cool about this episode is that even though it's a little old, it's a vintage, it's from the time of the Kansas special

0:15.9

election, but you're going to find that it's super applicable to tonight's Georgia election.

0:22.4

And Matt really explains what's wrong with the Democrats

0:25.7

what's wrong with their approach and he refers to the Democratic vision as

0:31.7

woke Goldman Sachs.

0:34.8

And since Matt is a historian,

0:36.7

he makes a lot of connections between history

0:39.4

and today's politics.

0:41.2

And he says he's inspired by the overthrow of the ruling class that we find

0:45.7

throughout history.

0:47.4

He talks about Frederick Douglas and about the use of the refrain Bernie would have won.

0:54.0

Matt's also kind of an expert in stats and voting patterns,

0:57.0

so you're definitely going to want to listen.

0:59.0

He also goes through various coalitions, talks about solidarity versus philanthropy.

1:04.0

It's really one of the best episodes.

1:05.6

So really excited to be dropping it tonight

1:08.1

given the AASAF failure in the Georgia election.

1:11.8

Please welcome to the stage Matthew Carr Princeton Professor Historian, author, author of this vast

1:21.2

southern empire, slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy,

1:26.5

also rights for places like Jacobin and the nation, and his probably most recent accomplishment is that he was retweeted by the Reverend

1:36.1

Jesse Jackson.

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