How Screwed Up Is American Democracy?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

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New York Times, Journalism, News, Society & Culture, Ross Douthat

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🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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How rotten has our democratic system has become, the columnists wonder, and what could fix it? David Leonhardt is furious about voter suppression in North Dakota and Georgia. Ross Douthat thinks NeverTrump Republicans should cast their midterm votes for House Democrats. And we learn what Michelle Goldberg would do if she had the “pee tape.” For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0	I'm Michelle Goldberg.
0:01.4	I'm Ross Douthett.
0:02.6	And I'm David Lee and Hart.
0:04.0	This is the argument.
0:06.4	Today is American democracy in crisis
0:09.7	with the midterms less than two weeks away.
0:11.9	We debate voter suppression and the corruption
0:14.4	of our electoral system.
0:16.3	Later on, Ross addresses the agony of Republicans
0:19.6	who don't like President Trump.
0:21.4	What should they do in the midterms?
0:24.0	I think that the Republican Party is sick,
0:26.3	but I think that Donald Trump contains
0:29.5	within himself a clue to the actual cure.
0:33.0	And of course, a recommendation.
0:35.2	It is just my favorite thing to watch on television.
0:50.7	Six years ago, a Democrat named Heidi Height Camp
0:53.4	won a surprise victory in a US Senate race in North Dakota.
0:57.0	She won by just 3,000 votes.
0:59.2	And she got crucial help from Native American voters.
1:02.6	And in this room are people who dare to believe.
1:06.3	Dare to believe again.
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