Mollie Hemingway Has The Playbook to Fix Our Elections
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Guests: Mollie Hemingway, Bishop Robert Barron, & Benedict Whalen
Host Scot Bertram talks with Mollie Hemingway, Senior Journalism fellow at Hillsdale College and Editor in Chief at The Federalist, about an article she co-wrote on Unrigging Our Elections. We hear excerpts from Hillsdale College's 2023 commencement by Bishop Robert Barron, Founder of Word On Fire Catholic Ministries and Bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, on the subject of living a good and holy life. And Benedict Whalen, Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College, gives an introduction to the life and work of English playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.0 | On election day, you would have whole operations designed around getting ballots into the box. |
| 0:31.2 | They would take vans around town. |
| 0:33.7 | They would, you know, sometimes incentivize people to come out and vote. |
| 0:37.1 | It wasn't about an informed, enthusiastic electorate. |
| 0:39.7 | It was about just like a machine operation getting people to the polls. |
| 0:43.8 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:51.7 | That was Molly Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College, |
| 0:56.1 | also contributor at Fox News. Molly joins us today to talk about a piece she co-wrote with her |
| 1:01.4 | husband, Mark Hemingway, over at The American Mind, titled Unrigging Our Elections. Molly, |
| 1:07.9 | thanks so much for joining us. It's great to be here with you. Always a pleasure. |
| 1:12.1 | We talk this time about a piece that you wrote along with your husband, Mark Hemingway, |
| 1:17.1 | at the American Mind, so Americanmind.org, unrigging our elections. Republicans need a serious |
| 1:23.9 | counteroffensive if they want to stand a chance. Mark has done a lot of work on this over |
| 1:28.9 | the years. You wrote a book rigged how the media, big tech, and the Democrats seized our election. |
| 1:34.2 | So two, great people to hear from on this subject. Right near the beginning model, you make this |
| 1:39.2 | delineation, which I think is super important, between election day, which we've had for centuries now in the country, |
| 1:47.4 | and what's turned into election season, which lasts a couple of months and early voting |
| 1:53.7 | and ballots being flooded all over the place. |
| 1:56.8 | What is the difference people should understand between how we approach election day and what has now turned into election season? |
| 2:04.8 | It's a really important distinction that's for people to make. |
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