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Is The GOP Finished? History Weighs In

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Kevin Kruse, professor of history at Princeton University, on battling revisions of Republican history on Twitter, racism as America’s original sin (and its other sins), the influence of Mike Pence and the religious right, and the narratives justifying their stances around the issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When I got elected as part of the D party movement, people cared about limited government,

0:07.1

they cared about fiscal conservatism, making sure that our government wasn't spending too much.

0:13.8

Under the current administration, spending a skyrocketing.

0:19.4

For a party that associates itself with Christianity to suggest that God would condone,

0:25.6

putting children in cages has lost all blame to ever use religious language again.

0:31.3

We're going to have a great fourth of July in Washington, DC. It'll be like no other.

0:35.2

We're going to have planes going overhead, the best fighter jets in the world and other planes too.

0:44.0

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernin. I don't know about you,

0:48.0

but I'm still in the afterglow of the Democratic primary debates, which showcased 20

0:54.4

sane, intelligent, cognitively intact reading at grade level people who are normal,

1:02.3

talking about normal things, and not like crop circles, sassclatch,

1:07.6

carny, tucker Carlson, as some kind of genius on geopolitics.

1:12.6

Yeah, or not saying, sure, we take an offer from the Kremlin to win an election,

1:15.9

or they're very fine people on both sides. We such a relief.

1:21.3

And you know what, there were fascinating issues that I wasn't steeped in that came up in

1:25.2

those debates. The legacy of busing didn't seem to me like arcana. It seemed to touch on exactly

1:31.6

how activist the government should be in promoting racial justice. And this is something with

1:36.3

implications for a range of urgent issues now. It's still now because many of the record number

1:42.7

of debate viewers this time came away thinking Kamala Harris, who brought up that issue one.

1:49.8

And then there was Julian Castro's very specific proposal, not that we bring our hands over

1:55.4

Trump torture camps, although we're going to do that too, but that we repeal section 1325 of the

2:01.3

immigration bill that makes illegal entry into the US a crime. He wants to make it a civil offense.

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