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The Brian Lehrer Show

Post-Election Calls

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

With a second Trump presidency looming, listeners talk about the policies they hope he'll enact–or the ways they intend to resist.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.2

So to end the show today, we'll take more of your post-election calls specifically right now.

0:22.3

We invite you to weigh in on one of two questions with the second Trump presidency now imminent.

0:27.4

One, if you voted for Trump, what policies do you want him to implement?

0:33.4

Let's be really policy-specific here.

0:36.1

And two, if you stand opposed to Trump, what will your

0:39.9

opposition or resistance look like this time around to the extent that you can imagine it right

0:46.4

now in what might be your state of shock? 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-962. Again, if you voted for Trump, what policies do you want him to

1:00.1

implement? Let's get policy specific. We know it's not just about owning the libs, as they say.

1:05.8

What do you want him to actually do? And two, if you stand opposed to Trump, what will your resistance or opposition

1:13.1

look like this time around? 212-433 W-N-YC, at least on first blush, 212-433-9-6-92 call or text?

1:25.9

Remember January 2017 when Trump took office for the first time and just a few

1:32.4

days in office he signed what was apparently what was referred to back then as the Muslim ban

1:37.9

executive order 13769 looked it up. Meanwhile in response to the alarming rhetoric and policy positions coming from

1:46.9

Trump on Twitter and on TV at the time and the Access Hollywood tape, organizers led a women's

1:52.9

march the day after Trump's inauguration. Remember that? And with respect to the Muslim ban,

2:00.2

people showed up at airports to protest the looming deportation

2:06.9

or the looming blockage of people from coming into the country.

2:11.4

Now he's promising mass deportation.

2:13.7

I don't know if there's a similar symbolic or any other kind of protest that takes shape early.

2:20.4

But in response to the George Floyd demonstrations, I should say until the George Floyd demonstrations,

2:29.7

the women's march was the largest single-day protest in American history.

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