Rachel Kleinfeld on the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump and the Rise of Political Violence in America

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this emergency podcast, Yascha Mounk and Rachel Kleinfeld discuss how to prevent a spiral of violence. Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Kleinfeld’s latest book is A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Rachel Kleinfeld discuss why political violence has been on the rise in recent years; which important resilience factors make America resistant to a civil war; and how individuals can contribute, as voters and in their communities, to lowering the probability of political violence This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Most people don't know that there's been a long uptick in political violence against school board members, governors, state legislators.
0:35.8	What they see are these episodic events, and you're quite right that these episodic events are
0:40.0	interpreted differently by both sides. But because they see these episodic events,
0:44.4	each one is very scary to them. If you see the whole trend of what's been going on,
0:49.4	first of all this is not at all surprising that it finally affected a presidential
0:53.4	candidate but it also could be a moment that could turn things back in a different
0:58.1	direction instead of adding to violence because violence gets added to when it's the other side that did it and
1:05.2	people point fingers as started to happen with J.D. Vance and so on. But in this case
1:09.6	it seems to be a registered Republican and that confuses people and that moment of
1:14.8	confusion can be a moment of pause and giving people a chance to think about a
1:18.9	different. And now the good fight with Yasha Monck.
1:22.8	My guest for today's emergency podcast is Rachel Kleinfeld. Rachel who's been on this podcast in the past is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
1:40.0	She is an expert on political violence in the United States and around the world and of course we tried to gather to make sense of the events of the last 48 hours.
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