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🗓️ 30 October 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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The former Ohio Democratic State Chair on how state legislatures are dismantling democracy.
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0:49.9 | My guest is David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio State Democratic Party, and he's written |
0:55.8 | a book, Laboratories of Autocracy, which I read a few weeks ago, and it's contributed to |
1:01.6 | a change in my thinking about where we are in terms of our democracy. |
1:07.5 | I have thought for some time that we are very close to a tipping point where we will descend |
1:14.1 | into some kind of autocracy. |
1:17.5 | But of late, I've been coming to the belief that we've already had the tipping point, and |
1:23.7 | that the tipping point actually isn't an actual point, but rather the accumulation of a |
1:30.3 | number of events that have undermined our democracy. |
1:34.1 | The first one is Citizens United, the 2010, 54 SCOTUS decision, which unleashed limitless |
1:42.8 | dark money in our politics. |
1:44.8 | And it is insane now, just how much dark money there is. |
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