Is 2024 the ‘regime referendum’?

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Freddy Gray speaks to Daniel McCarthy, editor of the conservative review Modern Age, about all things Donald Trump. Do his ongoing trials help or hinder his campaign? Do the Democrats want him to be the Republican candidate or not? And is there a bureaucratic 'permanent power' that Trump would overthrow if he succeeds?

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0:00.0	The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. Absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher.
0:26.2	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.
0:37.8	This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year.
0:44.2	And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to
0:49.9	and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.
0:54.1	I am delighted to be joined today by Daniel McCarthy, who is... and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.
0:57.2	I am delighted to be joined today by Daniel McCarthy,
1:01.1	who is editor of Modern Age, a conservative review.
1:04.2	He's also vice president of the ISI's Collegiate Network and a Spectator-C contributing editor and columnist.
1:09.2	And Daniel, you wrote a very interesting column for the Spectators' World
1:13.3	Edition at the end of last year called the 2024 regime referendum. And I think we'll get onto that
1:18.8	in a second. But first of all, I wanted to get your views quickly on the latest Trump news,
1:25.1	which is that his attempt to appeal for presidential immunity in
1:30.9	relation to the January 6th indictment, it's very hard to keep on top of all the latest
1:35.1	legal shenanigans with Trump, but that so far, well, the story yesterday was the judges
1:39.6	seemed skeptical of his claims that he has presidential immunity. Daniel, I know you're not a constitutional
1:47.0	scholar by trade, but you do seem pretty up to speed on the Constitution. What is your
1:51.8	understanding of presidential immunity? And do you think it applies to Trump in relation to January 6th?
1:57.7	Well, Trump is making a very, or his lawyers, rather, are making a very sweeping claim. And they're
2:03.2	basically saying that the president cannot be prosecuted for his actions during his administration.
2:09.2	In theory, it would seem to make the president above the law completely. And their claim is that,
2:14.4	well, you have the impeachment process, which Congress is responsible for while the president is in office.
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