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The Mona Charen Show

How to Disempower the Extremists

The Mona Charen Show

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.5 β€’ 1.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Katherine Gehl β€” the originator of Alaska's Ranked Choice Voting system β€” discusses progress on reforming our primary elections. The group then weighs in on Zelensky's historic visit, Elon's fate, Trump's taxes, and the immigration stalemate.


Highlights/Lowlights

Bill's:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-zelenskyys-visit-represented-bipartisan-masochism

Damon's:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/nyregion/george-santos-republican-resume.html

Mona's:

https://russroberts.medium.com/the-economist-as-scapegoat-91b317a6823e

Linda's:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/veterans-congress-abandoning-afghan-allies-spending-bill-rcna62686

Katherine's:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/12/22/omnibus-bill-senate/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Big To Bake to Differ, The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring

0:11.4

civil conversation across the political spectrum.

0:14.9

We range from center left to center right.

0:17.3

I'm Mona Charinth, indicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork and I am joined

0:21.7

by our regulars Bill Galston of the Bullwork and I am joined by our regulars, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution,

0:25.4

and the Wall Street Journal, Linda Chavez of the Nisk Cannon Center, and Damon Linger,

0:29.9

who writes the sub-stack, Eyes on the Right.

0:33.1

Our special guest this week is Catherine Gale,

0:35.6

founder of the Institute for Political Innovation.

0:40.1

Welcome, one and all.

0:42.3

We are going to get to the Zellensky visit and the other big news of the week,

0:48.0

but I'd like to begin today with a discussion about alternatives to our current two-party and closed primary system

0:57.8

because Catherine Gail she's a political entrepreneur who has identified a flaw in our system and attempted to correct it.

1:09.0

And so welcome, Catherine.

1:11.0

I'm so glad you could join us to talk about rank choice voting or what you prefer to call final five voting.

1:19.0

And so a lot of people are very enthusiastic about this.

1:24.2

Let's just quickly review the victories

1:28.0

that you've already achieved.

1:29.7

You've gotten this passed into law in Alaska and Nevada, right?

1:35.0

And it's currently being considered in a number of other states?

1:39.0

Yes, we are super happy with our victories.

1:43.4

We really have one and a half victories, Mona,

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