Rebroadcast: Historian Jon Grinspan on the last time Americans fought for democracy

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Rebroadcast: Historian Jon Grinspan says Americans in the past fought to fix democracy. But what does that mean for Americans today?

"Many of our problems have, if not identical moments in the past, parallels and similar tendencies in our democracy across time.” Jon Grinspan and Jack Beatty joined Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.9	This is on point.
0:25.0	I'm Megna Chakrabardi.
0:26.8	Last December, President Biden opened his virtual summit
0:30.2	for democracy with these words.
0:32.6	In the face of sustained and alarming challenges
0:35.0	to democracy, universal human rights,
0:38.2	and all around the world, democracy needs champions.
0:42.1	The two-day event with about 110 invited countries
0:45.5	fulfills a Biden campaign promise to gather together
0:48.5	a summit meant to defend against rising authoritarianism
0:51.6	around the world.
0:52.9	And I wanted to host this summit because here
0:55.4	is the here in the United States.
0:57.9	We know, as well as anyone, that renewing our democracy
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