Howard Dean: The Republicans Are Now a Neo-Fascist Party

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Republican Party has suffered a total moral collapse and is now held together by a bunch of “nutcases” happy to endorse autocracy and neo-fascism—or so says Howard Dean, former presidential candidate and ex-chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The Democratic Party grandee tells Molly Jong-Fast he won’t run for office again so he is no longer treading on eggshells. That’s bad news for the likes of Sen. Josh Hawley and Mike Pompeo, who are on the receiving end as the former governor lets loose on the “crazies,” the “whack jobs,” and the “conspiracy theorists,” in a fiery edition of The New Abnormal podcast.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and welcome to the Daily Beast's Venue Abnormal. I'm
0:05.7	a left-wing pendant and an editor at large at the Daily Beast. We're here to
0:10.5	have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
0:15.6	politics, and science that help make what's happening in the country and the
0:20.2	world clearer. Our world has been turned upside down. On the new abnormal we'll
0:26.0	talk about the people who got us into this mess and figure out how we get
0:30.4	ourselves out of it. And I'm producer Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure
0:34.1	everything doesn't go too far off the rails while we have fun discussions about
0:38.5	our world gone mad. And why take that duty seriously? Ourself's not so much.
0:44.4	Today we have an amazing episode with an awesome interview with former Vermont
0:48.6	governor, former DNC chair and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean who's
0:53.5	going to talk to us all about how Democrats win in 2022 and what and the hell is
0:57.7	going on with the Republican Party. But first we're joined by the National
1:01.7	Politics correspondent at the Washington Post, Olivier Knox. So welcome to the
1:05.9	new abnormal Olivier Knox. Thank you very much. We're excited to have you. You
1:10.7	have like made a big career transition from radio back to print. Is that weird?
1:16.1	So I did two years at Sirius XM hosting a radio show but every time there was
1:21.5	breaking news, I just instinctively pulled my laptop keyboard closer to me.
1:26.7	So I think I think once a wire service hack always a wire service hack. So I
1:32.0	there's no way. I mean I just I would never have described myself as a former
1:37.1	print reporter. So I'm really sort of I'm back in my element. Hopefully that
1:41.3	element will include audio component soon. But it's a big shift back. Can we
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