How the Left is Redefining Freedom

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti explains the origins of freedom in political rhetoric and how the Harris-Walz ticket is seeking to redefine freedom after the American right carried the mantle as the party of freedom for decades.

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0:00.0	It's the Brian Laird
0:11.2	show on WNYC.
0:13.0	Good morning everyone.
0:14.2	Have you noticed that on the campaign trail,
0:16.6	Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning into the word freedom?
0:22.4	And it is a fight for freedom.
0:23.0	And it is a fight for freedom.
0:26.0	Across our nation,
0:29.0	across our nation, we have been witnessing a full-on assault on hard-won
0:36.4	hard-fought freedoms and fundamental rights.
0:40.1	The freedom to vote, to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. And the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do.
1:07.0	A fight for freedom.
1:15.0	Harris at a recent rally with a litany of kinds of freedom as you hear there that she says are in danger that she wants to protect.
1:24.1	Interesting choice of a word that in recent times has been highlighted more by Republicans,
1:29.6	right?
1:30.6	For example, the most right-wing group in Congress calls itself what?
1:33.7	The Freedom Caucus.
1:35.2	40 years ago, Ronald Reagan, as president, defined freedom as getting the government off your
1:40.4	back.
1:41.4	He used that phrase domestically and fighting the Soviet Union in the name of freedom
1:46.2	internationally. A decade ago the Republican Tea Party movement released a manifesto with the words
1:52.1	lower taxes and less government on the cover.
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