Posthumous Presidential Reappraisals

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Services honoring former President Jimmy Carter begin this weekend. We assess his legacy, explore which presidents have rewritten history from the grave, and discuss the growing trend of historians being asked to act as present-day pundits with Lindsay Chervinsky, Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library and co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Plus, as incidents of people being pushed in front of subways increase, one transit activist has proposed a solution so unconventional it just might work—or almost certainly make things worse. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.6	It's Friday, January 3rd, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:39.2	It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.
0:44.3	A man was pushed in front of a moving subway train in New York City on New Year's Eve. We had horror inside this station with a push that was timed just as a train was pulling in.
0:51.2	It was part of a spate of subway crime.
0:56.5	Nearly one day after a 54-year-old man was fatally stabbed multiple times on a southbound end train. Police are looking for the suspect
1:01.6	who they say ran off the train after it pulled into the Stillwell Avenue station.
1:06.4	I could play the clip of the woman burned to death. A week before that, you maybe heard about other pushings, other stabbings.
1:14.3	Two men were stabbed on New Year's Day.
1:16.2	I'm not here to tell you that subway crime is worse than it's ever been or worse than
1:20.6	crime in New York City outside the subway, which is getting better, as are most communities
1:25.2	in the country.
1:26.4	Overall, transit crime in New York is down 6%.
1:29.2	Robberies are down 16%.
1:31.0	But murders, and we do and should pay attention to murders,
1:34.7	are up from three in 2019 to at least 11 in 2024.
1:40.6	Also in 2024, people were pushed onto the tracks at least 25 times compared to 20 times in
1:48.1	2019. I'm not so naive as to say zero would be the good number for people pushed on the tracks.
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