Revisiting Patterns of Change (with Heather Cox Richardson)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this episode of Stay Tuned, “Revisiting Patterns of Change,” Boston College History Professor Heather Cox Richardson joins Preet to discuss the evolution of the Republican Party, the danger of false political imagery, and the lasting legacy of American racism. This episode initially aired in June 2020. The re-aired episode includes new exclusive bonus material. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/revisiting-patterns-of-change-with-heather-cox-richardson/ To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider at: CAFE.com/Insider Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis by Elie Honig and features by CAFE staff: CAFE.com/brief As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is produced by CAFE Studios. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; Editorial Producers: David Kurlander, Sam Ozer-Staton, and Noa Azulai. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9	From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tune. I'm Pete Barara.
1:00.9	It's this moment that is not just about police brutality, I don't think, and it's not just
1:06.4	about the pandemic and the feeling that the government has, you know, kind of said,
1:10.8	our economy is more important than your life. But really, the culmination of, hey, wait a minute.
1:15.4	This is supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Why
1:19.7	is all the money moving upward? Why is it the people at the top who are getting all the
1:23.4	protection? You know, why is our president getting away with whatever it seems he wants to do?
1:27.7	Why is the secretary of state doing the same? Why is the attorney general doing the same?
1:32.0	This moment is giving voice to that anger.
1:34.0	That's Heather Cox Richardson. She's an American history professor at Boston College and the author
1:45.0	of many books about race, power, and labor from the Civil War to the present. Professor
1:50.4	Richardson is also the writer of a popular daily newsletter, Letters from an American, which
1:54.8	seeks to contextualize today's political events in American history. We spoke back in
1:59.5	June about the history of racism in America, the danger of false political imagery, and
2:04.5	why we are at a critical inflection point in our country's history. In light of Trump
2:09.1	losing reelection and the chaos that has followed, I thought it was the perfect time to
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