Mallory McMorrow

Impolitic with John Heilemann

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News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

John Heilemann talks with Mallory McMorrow, the 35-year-old Democratic state senator in Michigan whose fiery, 5-minute floor speech last month denouncing the Republican Party's divisive rhetoric and demagogic tactics on cultural issues (and its targeting of LGBTQ Americans in particular) went wildly viral .... turning her into an overnight national political sensation. Heilemann and McMorrow discuss her decision to speak out after being baselessly accused of "grooming” children by a GOP colleague; how Democrats can and should fight back against the Republican culture war and reclaim the language of faith from those using it as a weapon; why the recent racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo is connected to the rising trend of hate speech on the right; how the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade will impact the midterm elections; and why the future of American democracy may be decided this fall in places like Michigan. McMorrow also explains why she agrees with James Carville that Democrats have a "wokeness problem" — and why her method of arguing in favor of progressive goals in language suited to the factory floor, not the faculty lounge, is the solution.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, John Hyland here and welcome to Hell in High Water.
0:17.4	My podcast for the recount about politics and culture on the edge of Armageddon with
0:21.2	big ups to my pal Rizza, the presiding genius behind the sound of Wu-Tang Clan and the
0:24.9	producer of our dope The Music and We Are Back.
0:28.2	This is very quickly becoming a tradition that I and all of the fans and lovers of Hell
0:33.3	in High Water are coming to adore the presence of the one and only Grace Weinstein Grace.
0:36.8	How are you?
0:37.8	Here we are another week.
0:38.8	I'm doing well.
0:39.8	How are you?
0:40.8	I'm great.
0:41.8	When we booked Mallory McMorrow to come on this show, I thought, well here's a guess the
0:45.8	grace is going to begin to.
0:47.6	A woman, a fierce woman and a fierce woman who is though Grace year a little younger than
0:52.2	35 is kind of more age-appropriate than some of the guests who come on this show.
0:56.8	When you saw her give that speech that made her famous, what did you think?
1:00.5	I was like icon in the making.
1:02.5	Instant icon was ready to tear up the internet as we knew it and honestly like Drake said,
1:08.9	nothing was the same.
1:10.7	Yeah.
1:11.7	Every day if you work at the recount, you know that politicians are giving speeches all
1:14.7	day long.
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