Welcome to Democracy-ish. I am Danielle Moody, and I am once again joined by the most fabulous

Wajahat Ali. You know him, obviously from his very brilliant Daily Beast

columns, but he is also the author of the book. Go back to where you came from, folks. And frankly,

you can get it soon. January, when does it come out? 25th. It's coming up.

I got to prepare.

Thank you so much for always inviting me.

I always appreciate it.

And it makes me feel like I've always said that I'm not crazy.

And if I am crazy, at least there's another sister with me who's crazy in arms.

So at least we could be like crazy together.

Yeah.

I mean, I, you know,

as one does, we're like, what should we talk? What part of the world falling apart should we

discuss? And you know what is evident to me? America does a wonderful job going around the world,

going to the Middle East and telling them about how they treat women, going into China and talking about human rights violations and how

they treat women, right? And right now, in America, tell me where women are safe. Right? They're not safe from harm, from men who are getting to dictate now in the 21st century,

what they can do with their bodies, when they can start families, how they can do it.

And we have an active, active members of the GOP who are targeting in on women of color

and joking about violence, using, saying that they're terrorists. Where are women safe right now?

Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned how we kind of project this narrative where America is the beacon for women's rights and liberties.

And oftentimes that trope that we're going to save these brown and black women from brown and black men has been used to justify engines of colonialism.

If you think I'm lying, just look at the war on terror.

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