Quick Take: Where "Woke" Originated

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

It's that time of the year again... welcome to the barbershop. Michael is joined by Jonathan Capehart, John Fugelsang and Tara Setmayer for a conversation on all kinds of politics and crazy, touching on Ronna McDaniel's "loyalty oath," the Fox News-Dominion lawsuit and predictions for the 2024 presidential election. Plus, whether the GOP will succeed in diversifying their base and how the word "woke" has been weaponized.

This is an excerpt from the episode "Who Is 'The One' for 2024?: With Jonathan Capehart, John Fugelsang and Tara Setmayer."

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Jonathan Capehart is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former member of The Washington Post editorial board, an MSNBC contributor and the anchor of "The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart" and “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart.” Follow him @CapehartJ

John Fugelsang is an actor, comedian and the host of SiriusXM’s “Tell Me Everything” and “The John Fugelsang Podcast.”

Tara Setmayer is a former CNN political commentator, Senior Advisor at The Lincoln Project and host of the live show "The Breakdown.”

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1:09.9	Steel Podcast. Check out what's going on right now. Welcome back everybody to Michael Steel Podcast,
1:16.0	and we are at the barbershop with Jonathan Capehart, John Fugel saying and Tara Setmayer,
1:23.8	how does this party begin to put together a cohesive net? No, check that. How do presidential
1:30.8	candidates put together a cohesive narrative to convince the country to trust their leadership in 2025?
1:39.9	I don't know how they do that, Michael, with this cast of characters. I want to go back,
1:46.6	because everyone said something really interesting, and I've got some stuff to say.
1:50.8	So, so Roda McDaniel and her loyalty pledge, and you mentioned the autopsy from 2012.
2:01.0	At the time, writing a column that said, this autopsy is, they have some great things in it,
2:08.5	but let's not forget you do autopsy on dead things. And that was a joke in 2012,
2:17.1	and that was in the party was still alive. Now it's for real. It is, the party is dead.
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