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Welcome back everybody to Michael Steele Podcast. Like I said, we have a great conversation

with Lee Wright-Rigur, who is the author of the loneliness of Black Republican, pragmatic

politics and the pursuit of power. In a great conversation you had with Ezra Klein,

you brought up and he brought up and you got into the conversation around how the Republican

Party began to move off of some of those key things that were of interest to Black folks.

And there was this effort put in place by Ralph Bunch, who was invited to come in and

help them. Where have we heard that before? We find a Black man to help us get this

right. And so they get Ralph and Ralph said, all right, I'm happy to come in and put together

an effort here about how the new deal has failed the Black community and how Republicans

can further attract what was then the beginnings of the losing of that Black vote. As you rightly

noted, it began in 36. The party took note of it and wanted to do something about it. And one of

the things he noted that the Republican Party should go further into its policies no longer

relying on the spirit of Lincoln and the well-worn even at that point in time.

Well, Lincoln freed the slaves. Where have we heard that before, right?

But the thing, the critical thing was he wanted to argue and wanted the party to argue

publicly that more effectively on health care calls universal health care, more effective on

social security relief, finance, agriculture, labor. In other words, putting the party

in space one-on-one up against the new deal, right? And sort of expanding on some of those

policies. But here was his caveat. Happy to do it if and only if, not only that you take this,

but that you publicly release the whole thing, that this report that I'm going to do put it out

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