The Jackpod: They want revenge
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the appeal of Donald Trump’s promise of revenge and retribution to many Republican voters.
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| 0:39.7 | hi i'm meigna chockeram. Hi, I'm Megna Chocro Bardi, and goodness, yes, it's Friday, which means it's the day for the jackpot, where on point news analyst Jack Beaty helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 0:51.0 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello, Mejna. Okay, we've reached episode 14, your headline for today. |
| 0:57.6 | They want revenge. |
| 0:59.4 | Oh dear, who's the they? And what revenge do they want? |
| 1:03.2 | Well, that is actually a quotation from Frank Luntz. |
| 1:07.8 | And he's reporting on a focus group of Trump supporters |
| 1:11.1 | in 2015, even before he was elected president. |
| 1:17.0 | Here's another quote. |
| 1:20.0 | They want revenge. |
| 1:22.1 | This is from a economist writing a paper called Regonomics as a |
| 1:30.0 | watershed in the development of Trumpism. |
| 1:34.0 | And he there talks about how the explosion and inequality |
| 1:38.7 | that Reaganism both caused and sort of paralleled created tremendous presentment and he said they, that is, |
| 1:50.0 | many Americans want revenge for that. |
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