Is This The End of American Democracy?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Is US democracy in a death spin? That's now an increasingly mainstream debate as a radicalised Republican Party abandon democratic norms, the Supreme Court not only strikes down Roe v. Wade but facilitates the rigging of the electoral system, while an already heavily caveated US democracy increasingly enforces minority rule. Why is the Democratic response to this crisis so dire? What can be done to prevent the slide of the US into right-wing authoritarianism - all under the watch of a Democratic president? And how far fetched is talk of civil war?
We're joined by US journalists and podcasts Francesca Fiorentini and Matthew Sitman.
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| 0:17.9 | Hey, hey everyone. Good to see you. |
| 0:22.8 | Sorry we're a bit delayed. You know, these get a bit hectic sometimes. |
| 0:35.3 | Massive apologies, but here though. |
| 0:36.8 | So don't get too argy bargy with this. |
| 0:39.4 | We were here last week because I was in Croatia |
| 0:41.9 | on Bosnian holiday and he's get away after this year. |
| 0:45.7 | But we've got a very special show today. |
| 0:47.7 | And it is on the crisis of US democracy, |
| 0:52.0 | something which I think always had some very heavy caveats. |
| 0:54.4 | In fact, we'll talk about that. |
| 0:56.5 | Now we're putting this obviously in the context |
| 0:58.5 | of the Supreme Court ruling. |
| 1:00.2 | It's not least on row versus way, |
| 1:01.7 | but it doesn't stop there as I'll explain. |
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