How the Republican Party Went Crazy…PG:CC with David Corn

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today we are joined by American political journalist and author, David Corn. David is the Washington DC bureau chief for Mother Jones Magazine, a major cable news commentator, analyst for MSNBC, and best-selling author of a slew of books about American politics including the one we’ll be discussing today “American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy”. According to David’s research, the insanity currently going on with the GOP is not so much a departure from the norms, as a logical conclusion of an established pattern. Since the 1950’s, the Republicans have knowingly encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry, and paranoia to retain or gain power. As one review put it, “American Psychosis is a sobering look at the ideological destruction, born of cynicism and opportunism, of a once principled party.” Guest social: David Corn Books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=david+corn+books&i=audible&crid=1K6H03Z77Z53C&sprefix=david+corn+book%2Caudible%2C145&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 Our Land Newsletter: https://www.motherjones.com/topics/our-land/ Twitter: @DavidCornDC Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! www.littlespoon.com Promo Code: PoliticsGirl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	you know, 40% of Republicans said they believe that the Democrats were running
0:06.4	pedophile sex rings. And so people will leave these things. It's very hard to reach them in terms
0:12.3	of let's talk about infrastructure.
0:14.5	Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host, Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:30.5	Today's pod is a candid conversation with American political journalist and author, David Corn.
0:35.2	David is the Washington DC bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine, a major cable news commentator
0:40.2	and analyst for MSNBC. He's also the best-selling author of a slew of books about American politics
0:46.0	and one of my personal favorite online newsletters, Our Land. I'm having David on today to talk about
0:51.5	what's going on with the country, but particularly with the Republican Party. His newest book, American
0:57.0	Psychosis, a historical investigation of how the Republican Party went crazy, seems incredibly
1:02.7	topical as we watch the chaos unfold in the House of Representatives and see what's happening in the
1:07.6	GOP led states. David knows DC and he knows politics and he thought he could give us a little insight
1:14.0	into the insanity we're all living through. So without further ado, please welcome my guest, veteran
1:19.5	political journalist, prolific TV commentator and best-selling author David Corn. Welcome David.
1:26.6	Thank you for joining me. I mean, I've been following your work for years through Mother Jones.
1:31.2	Now with your newsletter, you're just one of the best political writers out there and for a girl
1:36.1	who named her project Politics Girl, that really means something. Well, it means something to me too
1:41.6	and I'll be sending you a check in the mail. Thanks for saying that. Good. I need way more checks,
1:46.6	way more checks. Now, along with journalism, as I said in the introduction, you've also written a
1:51.0	ton of books. So just to name a few, you're the author of Showdown, which was about how Obama
1:56.6	fought back against John Boehner and the Tea Party, the Lies of George W. Bush, you co-authored
2:02.1	Hubert's about Bush and that Bush-Chainy world selling the Iraq war to the American people.
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