Is It Time for Democrats to Fight Dirty?

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The twelve leading Democratic candidates met in Westerville, Ohio on Tuesday for the fourth debate of the 2020 primary season. The usual topics—healthcare, taxes, the impeachment inquiry—dominated the discussion, but the CNN moderators also asked the candidates to weigh in on a controversial proposal, gaining currency of late on the left, to expand the Supreme Court. So-called “court packing” is normally a taboo in U.S. politics, and predictably the top contenders were reluctant to endorse it. David Faris, professor of political science at Roosevelt University and author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics, believes that court packing is precisely the type of radical structural reform that Democrats and progressives need to pursue if they want a chance at defeating the right in years to come. He joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss what the left can do to overcome minority rule in Washington.

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0:00.0	Before we start the show today, I have a quick message for our listeners in Canada.
0:03.8	Deconstructed is coming to the Hot Docs Podcast Festival in Toronto on Friday, November 8th at 6.30pm,
0:10.6	with a panel of amazing guests.
0:12.6	Lots of other great podcasts will be putting on shows there that weekend,
0:16.0	including Vox's today explained and John Ronson's The Butterfly Effect.
0:20.3	This is your chance to see a taping of the show live and in person,
0:23.8	so head over to HotDocCinema.ca for tickets,
0:27.2	or go to the Deconstructed episode page on the Intercept website.
0:31.2	Now, onto this week's show.
0:33.2	I will tell you what the issue is here.
0:35.2	The issue is whether the Democratic Party has the guts,
0:38.2	whether we have the guts to stand up to the corrupt, price fixing for a pharmaceutical industry,
0:43.2	and if we don't have the guts to do that, we should be ashamed of ourselves.
0:48.2	Thank you, Ted.
0:50.2	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan, and that was Senator Bernie Sanders
0:59.2	at the 4th Democratic Presidential Domain on Tuesday,
1:02.2	acting as if he'd never had a heart attack.
1:04.2	It was a lively night, with strong performances from Sanders,
1:07.2	and also from Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren,
1:10.2	and maybe even Corey Booker too, but whoever wins the nomination.
1:14.2	Are they ready to take the fight to the Republicans next year?
1:17.2	And not just Diffie Donald Trump, but transform the political system in this country?
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