Jacobin Show: The Erosion of American Democracy w/ Chris Maisano

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Jacobin and Catalyst contributor Chris Maisano joins The Jacobin Show for a discussion about democracy in the U.S. Then, in a special, double "Labor Paul" segment, Paul Trujillo weighs in on the latest from the Teamsters Union.

The Jacobin Show offers socialist perspectives on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. This is the podcast version of the show from November 29, 2021 with Jen Pan and Paul Prescod hosting.

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0:00.0	Hey, and welcome back to the Jack Evan Show. I'm Jen Pan. As always, here with Paul Prescott. Paul, what's going on? How are you doing?
0:27.0	I'm good. How was your Thanksgiving? It was good. It was a, it was a friend's
0:32.6	skipping for me. What about you? Did you, were you with family? Yeah, you know, with family,
0:38.2	but luckily, no fights or anything like that. No, political fights? No. Sorry, I'm kind of disappointed.
0:44.6	Paul has some, like, political disagreement in his family. Isn't that right? Yeah, I do. You know,
0:51.4	my brother is a little bit to the right of me. But, you know, I think every shade of, of
0:57.5	political viewpoint is represented in my family. Yeah. Yeah. As it should be. Right. That's right.
1:04.0	Well, speaking of different viewpoints, we actually have two guests today. Chris Meizano, of course,
1:10.1	who is an editor and writer for Jacobin. He'll be coming on a little bit later to talk about
1:15.7	basically the collapse of American democracy. Maybe collapse is too strong of the word, but he's
1:20.1	going to be talking about American democracy and, you know, have the various ways in which it's
1:25.3	been eroded over the last several decades. And then we asked after that, we have a special
1:31.8	labor Paul guest. Paul, do you want to, do you want to say some things? We have the, the other
1:36.4	Paul in this world. We have a great guest, Paul Trujillo, who is a team sir. He's a UPS worker
1:43.4	also on the steering committee of team says for a democratic union. And he's going to talk about
1:47.9	the big victory in the team sir election where a reform slate is now in power. There's a lot of
1:53.6	excitement about what does that mean for the future? Was that mean for organizing Amazon and
1:58.7	everything like that? So I'm looking forward to that. We've talked about the teamster election
2:04.0	very briefly on the show in the past. I know you've touched on that, but just really quick before
2:09.5	we like dive into everything else that we're going to cover today, just so people get hyped about
2:14.7	the other Paul coming on. Like, what was so significant about this election?
2:19.4	Yeah, so, you know, I think probably many viewers know the name Jimmy Hoffa, right? So he was
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