Joyful Warriors: A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Coming right off the Democratic Convention, brilliant historian and writer Heather Cox Richardson gives her insights on where we are with the two parties and the upcoming election. She reminds us that democracy is not a given, and though we have to fight for it, we should find joy in that fight. That the Republicans are used to controlling the narrative, and holding the mantle of patriotic American, but the convention showed the world they aren’t the only ones who have the right to that title. The winds have shifted…what comes next is up to us. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: Letters from an American: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/ Insta: @heathercoxrichardson Twitter: @HC_Richardson 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… https://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://nurturelife.com code: politicsgirl https://drinkAG1.com/politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	There are moments that feel like the country changes and we are in one right now and I think the Democratic National Convention illustrated that.
0:09.8	I don't think it was the catalyst for it, but I think it certainly embodied it.
0:13.7	From the time that D.J. Cassidy did that roll call with the music and the dancing
0:19.7	and the little John coming down the aisles doing the count for Georgia it turned
0:25.5	democracy into a party into a celebration. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl Podcast. I'm your host Le McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:43.4	Today I'm very happy to be joined by Heather Cox Richardson, an absolutely
0:47.5	brilliant writer and intellect who I've respected for such a long time that I'm
0:51.6	feeling incredibly lucky she's decided to join me here today.
0:54.8	Heather is a historian, a professor of American history at Boston College and has previously taught at MIT and the University of Massachusetts
1:01.8	Amherst. She is the author of Massachusetts Amherst.
1:03.0	She is the author of seven books on history and politics, and in 2019 she started publishing
1:08.5	Letters from an American, which is now one of the most successful sub-stocks with over 1 million subscribers.
1:15.0	Heather says she studies the contrast between image and reality in America,
1:20.0	but especially in politics.
1:21.0	So I thought who better to break down the Democratic Convention
1:24.1	and where we stand with the 2024 election than with someone who has studied the history of our
1:28.4	country and our elections and knows how to explain the difference between spin and truth.
1:33.7	So without further ado, please welcome my guest,
1:36.1	historian, author, and professor Heather Cox Richardson.
1:39.6	Welcome Heather.
1:41.3	Oh, I'm so happy to be here.
1:43.0	Well, thank you for coming. I mean, as I was saying in the introduction, I'm such a big
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