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Pantsuit Politics

Pantsuit Politics Flashback: 2017

Pantsuit Politics

Sarah & Beth

Society & Culture, Politics, News, News Commentary

4.64.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Pantsuit Politics is celebrating ten years of podcasting this year!

A lot has happened politically, culturally, and personally in the last ten years. This summer, we’re going to revisit each of the years we’ve been podcasting with a special flashback episode. Today, we are looking back at the first year of Donald Trump's first term as president.

Topics Discussed

  • The Year of Resistance

  • The Beginnings of #metoo and Reflecting on Our Work

  • Outside of Politics: Cultural Highlights of 2017

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.7

This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

0:15.7

And this is Beth Silvers.

0:17.4

You're listening to Flashback 2017, a special episode of Pantsuit Politics.

0:22.9

We are celebrating 10 years of making this podcast by revisiting some of our episodes from each year.

0:29.6

And today it's 2017, the first year of Trump's first term.

0:33.3

Buckle up, there might be some deja vu.

0:35.7

We're going to talk about that and much more, as well as big pop culture moments of 2017, which is becoming my favorite part of this series.

0:45.1

Definitely the most palatable part to look at.

0:47.6

Yes. If you'd like to join the culmination of this series, we'd love to have you at the virtual celebration of our big live birthday party on July

0:55.8

19th. Tickets for the in-person event in Cincinnati

0:58.2

are sold out, but you could still grab a virtual

0:59.9

ticket and join us for all the fun.

1:02.0

All the information you need for that is in the show notes.

1:04.9

All right, next up,

1:06.2

2017.

1:10.7

Music Beth, I think 2017, is

1:22.8

accurately described as the year of the resistance.

1:28.5

That makes sense to me.

1:30.2

My experience of it as I was going back through these episodes was thinking about how we were learning to adapt to drinking from a fire hose in terms of the news cycle.

1:41.3

Everything picked up the speed, the pace, the velocity. And so you had that

1:46.9

equal and opposite reaction. Suddenly Trump was moving faster than we had ever seen an administration

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