How Democrats Condescend to the White Working Class

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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According to Joan C. Williams, about a third of the country feels talked down to. These are the white working class folks, the people who went for Trump, the people who feel that terms like disruption just mean more hassle and pain. "We can't expect people to have elite values if we don't give them elite lives," says Williams. She's the author of the book White Working Class. For the Spiel, why does everyone sound like Goodfellas while doing an Anthony Scaramucci impression? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I haven't seen you since Starbox after that festival. Oh, yeah, we need to hang out with the weather's good
0:06.2	This weekend shopping Saturday Sunday meals then lunch with Oscar next weekend
0:12.0	Thursday night with top cinema next Friday and a most about thing another one
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0:30.4	The following podcast contains explicit language
0:38.6	It's Wednesday July 26th
0:41.4	2017 from slated to the gist I might pesca today president Donald Trump announced that quote the United States government will not accept or allow
0:50.6	transgender
0:51.6	Individuals to serve in any capacity in the US military. All right. Let's look at the words accept or allow it except not actually a change of policy
0:59.6	Secretary of Defense Mattis said accepting new enlistees was still a policy under consideration
1:05.2	Allow is a big change and the White House had no further explanation of what a ban would mean for the trans
1:12.5	Individuals already told they could serve in the military ran says there are between two and three thousand of them
1:19.0	Kicking them out would seem to directly undermine one of the justifications Trump gave for his action
1:25.5	citing trying to avoid quote disruption
1:28.8	This is something that social conservatives have wanted for a while though there were a couple dozen Republicans who joined with all the
1:35.7	Democrats to defeat a bill in Congress which would defund the surgery for treatment of
1:41.6	Military members pursuing gender reassignment, but most social conservatives most conservatives do want this
1:48.4	Finding cause with conservatives as he knifes one of their own Jeff sessions in the back
1:53.2	Maybe you can say well that's savvy politics by Trump in the sense that throwing a hail Mary on fourth down
2:00.3	Is a savvy football play after you fumbled on down one through three
2:05.6	Also, we should note it is a betrayal of one of his pledges. I will do everything in my power
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