How not to be totally wrong about American politics
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:24.5 | Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. Hello and welcome to the bunker. Your need to know on news and politics five days a week. I'm Chris Jones. We've heard the phrase, Trump is a danger to democracy over and over again |
| 0:56.1 | for a while now, and that may be very true in many areas. But he is not the only thing casting |
| 1:01.7 | doubt upon America's political system. No, ordinary voters for years have been guilty of taking |
| 1:07.1 | ideas, myths, if you will, and believing them as facts without a shred of truth being in them. |
| 1:11.9 | Dr. Casey Berger is the Legislative Affairs Program Director at George Washington University, |
| 1:17.3 | host of Mastering the Room Podcast, and author of the new book, We Hold These Truths, How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back. |
| 1:23.8 | Casey, welcome to the bunker. |
| 1:25.5 | Thank you so much. Glad to be in a bunker with some fellas. |
| 1:30.4 | Excellent. Let's get straight to it, because there's a lot in this book. There's a lot of myths to |
| 1:35.2 | dispel. So first of all, you've teamed up with a lot of people here to get into all of this. |
| 1:40.7 | Could you perhaps tell me just a couple of the myths that are in this book the most relevant to |
| 1:48.2 | today? |
| 1:49.2 | Yeah, the sad part is that they're all relevant and that they all just keep coming back and |
| 1:53.6 | back. |
| 1:53.9 | And you mentioned years, I'm going to one up you and say, this has been decades that we've |
| 1:57.6 | been hearing a lot of these same stories. |
| 2:00.1 | And now we're on another generation falling for these same things, which lead hearing a lot of these same stories, and now we're on another generation |
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