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Americano

Is America in decline?

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4714 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Freddy Gray speaks to political science researcher Richard Hanania about his (relative) optimism regarding the future of America, and how exactly Sydney Sweeney might have 'ended wokeness'.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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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 Richard Henania,

0:57.3

who is an American political science researcher,

1:00.4

according to Wikipedia.

1:01.4

I'm sorry to cite Wikipedia at you, Richard.

1:03.6

You are also the founder and president of the think tank,

1:07.7

the Centre for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, CSPI. And you write an extremely

1:14.2

interesting, and to use an overused word, eclectic, substack about all sorts of things. And the

1:20.7

obvious thing to start talking to you about would be Sydney, Sweeney's breasts, because you've caused

1:26.3

quite a stir by suggesting that those two

1:29.3

magnificent weapons have destroyed wokeness. I think you did a tweet about that. How many

1:35.4

views did you get on that tweet? I got about 62 million at this point. There was another one

1:39.9

that got 20 million, so not as high performing. But yes, obviously there's quite an interest in this topic.

1:46.6

And look, sometimes the lowest effort tweets

1:48.7

sometimes get you the most attention.

1:50.2

So somebody said it to me.

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