Slate Live Event: The People vs. Trump

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🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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The shocking results of the 2016 election left people wondering how our country would change under a Trump presidency. Many Americans feared the worst, some hoped for the best, and others leapt into action. Now, one year out, Slate will take stock of the year that was and celebrate the work of those who have served as a check on the administration. Join Slate writers for a series of one-on-one conversations with those at the forefront of politics, media, the law, and activism as they compare notes on the lessons, challenges, and victories they’ve seen over the past year—and what they expect from the next. Featuring … Jamelle Bouie, Slate chief political correspondent, in conversation with Tom Perriello, former Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Virginia Isaac Chotiner, Slate writer, in conversation with Jelani Cobb, staff writer for the New Yorker and professor at Columbia Journalism School Michelle Goldberg, New York Timescolumnist, in conversation with Tamika Mallory, Women’s March national co-chair and activist Dahlia Lithwick, Slate senior editor and legal writer, in conversation with Becca Heller, founder of the International Refugee Assistance Project Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent, in conversation with Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change and hosted by Julia Turner, editor in chief of Slate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello. Can you guys hear me? Good evening everyone. I am Julia Turner. I'm the editor-in-chief
0:13.9	of Slate. Thank you so much for being with us here with us tonight for the People
0:19.5	Versus Trump year one. It is 7.30 ish PM on November 8th, 2017, which means that exactly
0:33.8	one year ago at this time, we were all enjoying the last few hours of life in a world that
0:40.9	felt very different than the world we live in now, a world where it seemed obvious, at
0:46.6	least to me that a man who's campaign-corted white supremacists and who bragged on Mike about
0:52.1	sexual assault would not become president. And a world where it seemed likely that finally a
0:58.0	woman would. It may seem odd to convene tonight to celebrate what Michelle Goldberg this week called
1:04.6	in her New York Times column, The Anniversary of the Apocalypse. But we began planning this event
1:10.2	a few months ago for one reason we didn't want to spend that anniversary alone. And we thought that
1:16.9	maybe some of you would not want to be alone either. In some ways that's a very simple idea. It's
1:22.1	better to be sad with friends than by yourself. But there's also I think a larger impulse there
1:28.7	that's worth thinking about. For me, I know and I think for many others, Donald Trump's election
1:34.6	victory provoked profound feelings of alienation and astrangement. I was left feeling that I didn't
1:41.1	know my country, didn't know my fellow citizens, didn't really know who journalism was for,
1:48.1	didn't know what being a woman really meant. It was disorienting, it was isolating, it was lonely.
1:56.3	But Trump's victory was also instantly galvanizing for me and for every journalist who works at
2:00.9	Slate. We saw that night the next morning immediately the opportunity to use the tools at hand to
2:07.8	illuminate the world as it changed for a group of people, including you all, who cared deeply about
2:13.4	that change. And so we got to work covering Trump's reign with a particular focus on his ongoing
2:19.4	battle with the rule of law in America, which you'll be hearing some about tonight. And also on
2:24.1	how his administration is affecting the many, many groups of people he has maligned on his way into
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