Rolling Back Rights. With CNN's Ron Brownstein
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Ron Brownstein is one of the sharpest analysts of American politics. He is a Senior CNN Political Analyst and a Senior Editor for The Atlantic. He's been reporting and writing about the radical rollback of rights in Red states. Ron's CNN work can be found here. His work for The Atlantic here. Ron's great book, Rock Me on the Water, on the way the TV, Music and Movies changed after the year of 1974, is now out in paperback. You can buy it here.
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| 1:03.9 | Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pot. |
| 1:12.5 | Even for those of us who live and love politics, these are troubling times because politics has gotten more divisive, |
| 1:19.5 | more personal, and more ugly than ever before in our lifetime. And it's not just extremists on the fringes anymore. Even mainstream conservatives are now using politics at the local, state, |
| 1:26.3 | and federal level to roll back our most basic |
| 1:29.9 | rights and to reverse many of the advances in freedom that we've won over the last 50 years |
| 1:35.8 | or more, especially for women, LGBTQ Americans, and people of color. These reactionary forces are |
| 1:44.0 | so active on so many levels, it's no |
| 1:46.8 | exaggeration to say that our very democracy is at stake, and yet few people are writing about it |
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