Political Gabfest - Let the Purge Begin
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🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David discuss Republican allegiance to Trump, schools during COVID-19, and they're joined by guest Jonathan Cohn to look back on Obamacare and to explore the current state of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Susan Dominus for the New York Times Magazine: “Rhode Island Kept Its Schools Open. This Is What Happened.”
Shawn Hubler for The New York Times: “Vaccinating Oregon’s Teachers Might Not Be Enough to Reopen its Schools.”
The Ten Year War by Jonathan Cohn
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Anna Holmes for the Atlantic: “The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism”
John: Radio Garden
David: Pick of The Litter
Listener chatter from Ming Richie: Cathy Free for the Washington Post: “This Man Mistakenly Left his Wallet in Antarctica. Some 53 Years Later, He Got it Back.”
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| 0:15.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political fest for February 18th, 2021. |
| 0:23.4 | The Let the Purge Begin edition. |
| 0:25.7 | I am David Plotz of CityCast. |
| 0:28.1 | I am in Charleston, South Carolina, where I am spending a week in a place that is not quite as cold and rainy and snowy as everywhere else in the country. |
| 0:36.6 | So I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:38.4 | Thank you, Charleston. |
| 0:39.6 | I am joined by John Dickerson of CBS's 60 Minutes from New York. |
| 0:46.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello. |
| 0:49.6 | Do you at the end of a tunnel? |
| 0:52.8 | And then Emily Bazelon is in New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School from New Haven. |
| 0:59.5 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:00.8 | Hello. |
| 1:01.5 | Today, we'll talk about the civil war in the Republican Party, or rather the what civil war in the Republican Party? |
| 1:07.0 | Donald Trump is acquitted. |
| 1:09.9 | Will the party break free of him and his family? Or will there |
| 1:14.0 | just be recriminations and it will be the Trump party at infinitum? Then schools and COVID, |
| 1:21.4 | schools and vaccination, schools and teachers, how to think about how to reopen. Can reopening happening? What is the state of |
| 1:29.4 | reopening? We talked about that. Last week, we're going to talk about it again because we think it |
| 1:32.8 | really matters. It's really important. Then we're going to be joined by one of America's |
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