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Media And Politics, Society & Culture, Fight For Democracy., American Politics, White Supremacy In Politics, Multiracial Democracy, Social Justice Podcast, Wajahat Ali, Danielle Moodie, Politics, U.s. Politics Podcast, Racial Justice, Democracy Podcast, Political Commentary, Defending Democracy, Political Podcast, News, Progressive Politics Podcast, Government

4.8703 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Corona trutherism is rampant on the right. They doubt how many people it’s killed. They protest against staying at home. They want to fire Fauci. They are a mess. The right’s impulse to doubt media, experts, and truth is now endangering lives. Plus what’s the matter with Kanye??? Democracyish.

Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Touré

Executive Producer: Adell Coleman

Producer: Ryan Woodhall

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0:00.0

Welcome to Democracyish.

0:12.6

I'm Tore.

0:13.5

And I'm Danielle Moody.

0:14.8

And we're coming to you on a very strange day when there is a march going on in Michigan, people protesting the governor's

0:27.4

stay-at-home order.

0:29.0

This is part of a series of similar protests from the right across the country.

0:35.7

Trump supporters protesting the stay-at-home orders of various

0:41.1

governors and mayors.

0:44.0

Part of a right-wide movement to say the lockdown has been too long, we must get back to work,

0:53.3

enough of this, we. Enough of this.

0:54.5

We're tired of this, which ties into this whole sort of right-wing corona skepticism, which

1:02.5

became corona trutherism, where they doubt how many people have actually died, how

1:09.5

scared we should be of this thing, whether or not it's actually real.

1:15.1

This is bizarre.

1:16.8

I don't know how, I do know how, but I don't know how we got to politicizing this medical situation to where the right is saying, enough of this, we've got to get back to

1:30.2

work. And like, yeah, I want to get back to work and life as normal. But I need the doctors to say

1:38.5

that this is okay. And I was just reading a piece of Ed Young's upcoming Atlantic piece about the second piece

1:45.8

that Ed Young wrote. This is not going to be a quick return to normal after a couple of weeks.

1:53.2

We're going to be in this in some form or fashion for a year or two or maybe even three.

2:03.5

And we've been in it like a month, and they're like, enough already.

2:07.6

And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.

2:10.8

Yeah, I mean, look, one, I guess stupidity is contagious, is what I'm understanding.

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