Rep. Jim Clyburn Offers A Historical Warning

What A Day

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

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The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, released a new survey this week in an attempt to figure out who, exactly, is a Republican these days. The takeaways? Newer Republican voters are more conspiratorial, more likely to be racist and antisemitic, and more likely to support the use of political violence. And they are pulling the GOP in their direction. This trend worries South Carolina Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn, who has written a new book, “The First Eight,” about the eight Black South Carolina Congressmen who preceded him in office. All of them were Republicans at a very different time for the party. Representative Clyburn became the ninth Black Congressman from the state when he was elected in 1992 – nearly a century after the last of the First Eight served in office. We spoke with Representative Clyburn about why it felt so urgent to write this book now. And in headlines, the Supreme Court allows Texas to use its gerrymandered Congressional map in the midterms, President Donald Trump holds a photo op to misleadingly tout peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and new data reveals the dramatic scale of our affordability crisis.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, December 5th.
0:04.1	I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.
0:06.0	The show thrilled to see the U.S. Institute of Peace renamed the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.
0:11.5	I'm looking forward to the openings of the Caroline Levitt School of Being Truthful and Not Condescending.
0:16.4	And the J.D. Vance Academy of getting offline and touching grass like a normal person.
0:29.4	Thank you. the J.D. Vance Academy of getting offline and touching grass like a normal person. On today's show, President Donald Trump holds a photo op to tout peace in a region where there isn't
0:34.4	peace. And the Supreme Court rules on Texas' maps falling in lockstep with its guiding principle.
0:40.4	The rule of law, according to Trump.
0:43.1	But let's start with the Republican Party.
0:45.6	I don't know if you've noticed, but the GOP has changed over the last decade.
0:49.1	A lot.
0:50.4	The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, released a news survey on Monday.
0:54.4	Its attempt to figure out who, exactly, is a Republican these days.
0:58.5	According to the data, the think tank separated the GOP, or as it refers to it, the current GOP, into two grips.
1:05.2	Core Republicans, which it identifies as people who have voted for GOP candidates since before 2016,
1:10.3	and new entrant Republicans who are
1:12.4	recent first-time GOP presidential voters, as in people who may have voted for former President
1:17.8	Barack Obama, but then voted for President Trump. The takeaways? New entrant Republicans are more
1:24.3	conspiratorial, more likely to be racist and anti-Semitic, and more likely to support
1:28.9	the use of political violence, and they are pulling the GOP in their direction. Which worries me,
1:34.6	and it worries South Carolina Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn. He's written a new book,
1:39.3	The First Eight, about the eight Black South Carolina congressmen who preceded him in office.
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