How has ‘Make America Great Again’ evolved in Trump era?
KCRW's Left, Right & Center
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The phrase “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) has grown more popular over the last decade thanks to Donald Trump’s campaign. But Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both used that messaging. How has the slogan’s meaning changed from its origin to now?
This election, both parties are focusing on the fight against poverty. While Donald Trump championed his 2017 tax cuts as an economy-boosting tool, Kamala Harris wants the government to help Americans pay for food and housing. Which campaign is winning over the middle class?
For the first time, Minnesota students are getting free lunches and breakfasts, thanks to a bill that Governor Tim Walz supported and the state passed in 2023. But those free on-campus meals could cost the state $400 million in 2024-25. This week’s 50 states series looks at anti-poverty measures in public schools.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, and it is time again for left right and center. I am David Green. |
| 0:06.4 | Sarah Isger is here with me. She is senior editor at the dispatch and was spokesperson |
| 0:10.7 | at the Justice Department under President Trump. |
| 0:13.0 | Mo Aleithi is away this week, but we have Nomeki Kontz back. |
| 0:16.6 | She is a political commentator. |
| 0:18.4 | Former Democratic strategist served as national co-chair for President Obama's 2012 campaign and later a surrogate for Bernie Sanders. |
| 0:27.6 | Are either of you missing being on the front lines here in 2024? |
| 0:30.8 | Are you wishing you were like in the thick of this campaign doing things like you know |
| 0:34.7 | plotting and surrogate style stuff? I didn't feel like I missed it, but after going to the convention I want to be in every room right now I want to hear |
| 0:45.2 | their brainstorming sessions I mean there there's so much creativity oozing from |
| 0:49.1 | this campaign that yeah of course I want to be in major FOMO. |
| 0:53.6 | You felt that the fire come back in Chicago. |
| 0:55.7 | Sarah? |
| 0:56.6 | If you're asking, do I miss being a political operative |
| 1:00.5 | and being on the trail and doing campaigns, absolutely every day, it's like I'm a recovering |
| 1:06.9 | addict and every day I will have to tell myself not to go hit the pipe again. |
| 1:13.0 | If you're asking do I miss this campaign? |
| 1:16.0 | Do I wish I were out in this cycle? |
| 1:18.0 | No, absolutely not. |
| 1:21.0 | This campaign is depressing in any number of ways to me like from a high |
| 1:26.6 | level sort of first principles uniparty as both candidates now seem to borrow each |
| 1:31.5 | other's policy platforms and yet tell people that this is an |
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