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On Point | Podcast

The Jackpod: We're going back

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on the historic eras the U.S. could return to if Donald Trump’s various campaign policies are enacted.

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0:51.2

I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie,

0:57.5

helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

1:04.6

Hello, there, Jack.

1:06.2

Hello, Megna.

1:07.4

Episode 57, not much going on this week.

1:11.1

What could possibly be your headline, Jack?

1:14.2

We're going back.

1:16.2

We're going back.

1:17.8

Okay, so obviously you're talking about the election.

1:20.4

And is that a play on what Kamala Harris' one of her mottoes was?

1:25.8

Yes, her defiant refrain, we're not going back.

1:30.3

The people decided otherwise under Trump's reactionary populism.

1:36.2

We're going back to the 1950s.

1:39.6

Seven and ten Trump supporters say that American society and way of life has changed for

1:48.7

the worst, for the worst since the 1950s.

1:54.2

And about half of independents agree with them, only 27% or so of Democrats.

2:00.6

And of course, the 1950s, what do we, you know, when we look at it, we see that that was the

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