Our Democracy’s Last Shot

The Lincoln Project

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Trygve Olson to discuss the always growing division in the GOP, how a second Donald Trump term is a guarantee of American autocracy, and why it continues to be crucial for the pro-democracy movement to play the game we’re in…and not the game we know. Plus, what our democracy can learn from the recent elections in Poland. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	Everyone it's read. Before we get started I just want to wish everybody a happy and healthy holiday season.
0:36.7	I know these are uncertain times. I know you might have a lot of tough conversations, but just know you can always find what you need here at the Lincoln
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0:50.0	podcast, and again, I hope you enjoy your time with friends and family.
0:54.5	And now, on with the show. Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host Reed Gailen. Today I'm joined by
1:09.8	Trigg Veels, senior advisor of the Lincoln Project, an owner of Viking Strategies LLC, a public affairs and political
1:17.2	consulting firm based here in Washington, D.C.
1:20.8	Trigvy has been with us nearly since the beginning and has done an incredible amount of work for the pro-democracy movement overseas and here at home.
1:28.0	Trigvie, welcome back.
1:30.0	Thanks for having me, Reed.
1:31.0	There's so much to start with, but I want to start overseas in a place I think you know pretty well.
1:36.0	So last week for the first time in a while but again Donald Tusk of the Civic Movement was elected Prime Minister of Poland.
1:47.8	This was after what nearly a decade, maybe a decade of law and justice, a sort of right wing, sliding further into the right wing.
1:55.4	They're pretty right wing.
1:56.8	I mean, they've always been really right wing.
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