The "Last Wasp" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss the legacy of George H.W. Bush, the power-grab by Wisconsin Republicans, and election fraud in North Carolina.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 6th, 2018, the Last Wasp Edition. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.5 | Joining me from New Haven is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello, Emily. Hey, David. And from New York City, CBS this morning's John Dickerson. Hello, John. How are you? |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, David. Today, we will consider the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush and his place in history. |
| 0:42.3 | Then a vigorous and entirely successful effort to rig the Wisconsin and Michigan governments to strip power from Democratic elected officials. |
| 0:51.9 | And what does that tell us about the state of politics and partisanship in 2018? |
| 0:55.8 | We will be joined by Dan Kaufman, the author of the book The Fall of Wisconsin and the |
| 1:00.4 | world's authority on what's going on in Wisconsin to go into that. |
| 1:04.9 | He's even in Wisconsin. |
| 1:06.1 | He's even in Wisconsin. |
| 1:07.3 | My gosh, it'll be live on the street. |
| 1:10.6 | And then an audacious effort to |
| 1:13.7 | steal a congressional election in North Carolina has been uncovered. Is the Republican Party |
| 1:18.6 | to blame? Was it just a rogue operative? What does this tell us about the state of elections |
| 1:23.7 | and partisanship in 2018. |
| 1:28.6 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:35.6 | And of course, dear friends, next week is our live conundrum show at the NYU Skirbel Center in Manhattan. |
| 1:37.1 | There's still a few tickets left. |
| 1:38.6 | It's 7.30 on Wednesday. |
| 1:40.3 | Go to slate.com slash live to get tickets. |
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