The Party of Lincoln
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Jill Lepore joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what history can tell us about our current political moment.
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| 0:48.4 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 0:53.6 | It's Friday, May 6th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, May 6th. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 0:59.1 | Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, |
| 1:02.3 | is working on how to handle the wrath of certain powerful members of the party. |
| 1:06.5 | Here's Senator Lindsay Graham on Face the Nation this week. |
| 1:10.2 | And I think Hillary Clinton is an incredibly flawed candidate, but she will mop the floor with |
| 1:15.7 | Donald Trump because with women and Hispanics, they hate Donald Trump because he's so harsh |
| 1:21.1 | and he's so cruel in his foreign and his policies toward illegal immigration, and he's so |
| 1:27.0 | insulting toward women in general, |
| 1:29.2 | the Republican Party, if we embrace Donald Trump, you're rejecting conservatism for Trumpism, |
| 1:35.2 | which is a cult of a strong man that absolutely is nowhere near conservatism. |
| 1:40.8 | Jill Lippor joins me to discuss what history may have to teach us about Trumpism and other forms of popular revolt. |
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