Is This the End of America?: A Conversation with Journalist Ahmed Baba

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024, the year we either destroy or save America. This is it. Make it or break it. To give us a sense of the stakes, I’m joined by journalist Ahmed Baba who recently did an amazing article for the Independent about the the “conservative promise” of Project 2025. Project 2025 is a roadmap to fundamentally reshape the federal government into the image of the far right once a Republican president takes office. We keep talking about the horse race between two people when we should be talking about the choice between two Americas. The consequences for the rule of law, democracy, and justice are all on the line. So as we sit at the top 2024 and I want you to know what will happen if we elect anyone who will implement Project 2025. To be clear, so far that’s every single Republican candidate. As always, if you enjoy what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, including the knowledge that you’re allowing us to keep bringing you the best content possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thanks so much! xoPG https://linktr.ee/ahmedbaba https://www.independent.co.uk/author/ahmed-baba https://rantt.com/author/ahmed_baba X: @AhmedBaba_ Newsletter: https://www.ahmedbaba.news/subscribe MERCH STORE NOW OPEN: Check it out at: https://www.politicsgirl.com/store As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… http://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl http://moshlife.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	Their plan is to use freedom of speech to deny people freedom of speech.
0:06.2	Make that make sense. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Le McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:23.0	First of all, happy new year.
0:25.0	It's 2024, the year we either destroy or save America.
0:29.0	There's no middle ground here.
0:30.0	It's a make it a break a year for the country that we know and love.
0:33.7	To give us a sense of what we have ahead of us here at the top of 2024, I'm joined by journalist
0:38.4	Ahmed Baba. Ahmed is a columnist for the independent, consultant our common power and co-founder of
0:44.7	rant media entrepreneur and media literacy consultant his work has been seen in the
0:48.8	New York Times Washington Post BBC cb CBS, and Rolling Stone.
0:52.8	His newsletter, Ahmed Baba. News,
0:55.1	can be found on sub-stack where he does a deep dive
0:57.5	into a cross section of topics.
0:59.6	I'm having Ahmed on today because in November,
1:02.4	he wrote an amazing article in the
1:04.0	independent about Project 2025. If you don't know what Project 2025 is, it's a
1:09.6	roadmap to fundamentally reshape the federal government into the image of the far right when a Republican
1:15.2	president takes office on January 20, 2025.
1:19.4	We keep talking about the horse race, the odds, who's going to win, Biden or Trump, but we're not really talking about what's at stake in this election, the real decision we have to make.
1:30.0	The consequences for the rule of law, democracy, and justice in America are all on the line.
1:35.1	It's not really about the candidates.
1:37.1	It's about the future of our country as we know it, and we have to take that incredibly seriously. So here we sit at the top of 2024 and I want you to know how
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