Stefanik’s Replacement Theory Talk Led to a Day of Infamy

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has the “worst luck in American retail politics ever,” declares host Molly Jong-Fast on this episode of The New Abnormal. Stefanik’s past “replacement theory” rhetoric has resurfaced after the “screed” of the Topps shooter Payton Gendron had been reported to contain the same kind of views. Somehow she thinks she’s the victim—and Molly and Andy Levy dive into that on this episode. Plus! Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod gives Molly the low-down on the Pennsylvania candidates running in Tuesday’s election, including Dr. Oz and Kathy Barnette, who is “even too Trumpy for Trump.” And Shannon Watts, founder of anti-gun violence group Mom’s Demand Action, explains the loophole that allowed the Topps shooter to get his gun, and how the NRA is linked to what drove him to kill.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un.
0:04.6	I'm a left-wing pundit and a writer at the Atlantic Envote.
0:08.0	And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:13.7	objective.
0:14.7	And I've produced Suggesticated and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:18.0	the rails.
0:19.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the wisest and funniest people in science
0:23.5	and media and politics that help make what's happening today clearer.
0:28.0	Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal we'll talk about the
0:31.8	people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of it.
0:35.8	What a great show we have today.
0:37.3	Democratic strategist Adrian L. Rodd is going to come by to talk to us about the big terms
0:41.3	with Democrats and messaging.
0:43.0	Then we're going to talk to Shannon Watts, who's of course the founder of Mom's Demand Action
0:46.5	and a board member of every town for gun safety.
0:49.0	And she's going to talk to us about the gun violence in Buffalo this weekend as well as
0:53.0	a host of other issues.
0:54.6	But first, let's have some fun.
0:57.0	Andy Levy.
0:58.0	Molly Junkfest.
0:59.0	We're coming up a weekend of five mass shootings.
1:04.1	One that captured the headlines, though just one of five, was this incredibly tragic.
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