Ron DeSantis' policies that push authoritarianism
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout. |
| 0:06.0 | The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people. |
| 0:11.6 | Just get the f*** away. |
| 0:14.2 | Wherever you have to go, just get away. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, what's your name? |
| 0:18.9 | The post Obama right wing panic over race and culture. |
| 0:22.6 | No where is that in sharper focus than in Florida where Ron DeSantis has had more success, |
| 0:27.8 | pushing authoritarianism that Donald Trump ever dreamed possible. |
| 0:32.5 | Plus, breaking news in the Dominion voting system's lawsuit against Fox News, including |
| 0:37.0 | our first look at some of the sworn testimony from Rupert Murdoch on why he allowed his |
| 0:42.7 | network to spread election lies. |
| 0:45.8 | Also tonight, Senator Elizabeth Warren is here on how we are still living with the consequences |
| 0:51.0 | of Trump's judicial choices. |
| 0:53.2 | It's an imminent decision on reproductive rights to student loan debt relief and beyond. |
| 0:59.5 | And the water crisis in Mississippi has echoes of 1890 post reconstruction with Jackson's |
| 1:05.6 | overwhelmingly black population being told by white state lawmakers, we know what's |
| 1:11.1 | best for you. |
| 1:12.1 | But we begin tonight with the supersized panic of the American right. |
| 1:19.2 | Most Obama backlash may have escalated the panic more than 10 years ago. |
| 1:24.2 | But then Donald Trump poured the freak out with gasoline. |
| 1:28.4 | It was Trump who unveiled the racism and misogyny that was always there, but through it wide |
| 1:32.7 | open, normalized the depths of the country's prejudice, even made it fashionable for conservatives. |
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