The Soul of the Nation with Wajahat Ali

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🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Author and Daily Beast Columnist Wajahat Ali to discuss the importance of President Joe Biden’s recent primetime speech in Philadelphia, why so many media outlets have been critical of the speech for all the wrong reasons, and the incestuous nature of the Washington media/political establishment. Plus, how does the nature of the modern day GOP inform the biblical story of Moses? If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's read before we get started, I just want to ask you to go to join the union.us
0:06.2	heed our words heed the words of President Biden get involved in saving American democracy
0:12.2	this fall by getting involved in your states and your communities to ensure that pro-democracy
0:17.2	candidates win go to join the union dot us and join the fight and now on with the show.
0:31.9	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galey. Today I'm joined by Wajali,
0:37.9	columnist at the daily beast and a senior fellow at the Western State Center. He's previously
0:42.6	been a New York Times contributing op-ed writer, CNN commentator, host for Huff Post, and also a
0:48.4	recovering attorney in playwright. Earlier this year, he published his first book, Go Back to
0:53.6	Where You Came From, and other helpful recommendations on how to become American, and it's available
0:58.2	wherever fine books are sold. Today he's coming to us from Alexandria, Virginia. Waj, welcome to the show.
1:03.6	Thank you so much for having me, I appreciate it. So before we talk about President Biden's speech
1:09.2	that he gave last night as we're recording this watch, I want to talk a little bit about your
1:12.8	background. So you were an attorney in a playwright. Certainly no plenty of people who were who went to
1:18.5	law school who even if they took the bar and never practiced, but going from lawyering and playwriting
1:25.9	to writing for politics on a full-time basis, how did that happen? Sir, I am a licensed attorney
1:32.2	still and I did practice. I want to say that because we're in the swamp, the nether regions,
1:37.2	the groinal area of America, DC, Virginia, where as you said, actually a lot of people go to law
1:42.1	school, they get licensed but they don't practice. So I actually did practice still licensed, and while
1:47.1	I was in law school in my first year of law school, instead of going and doing what they call OIC
1:51.2	on campus interviews and join a corporate law firm, which I probably should have done if I was a
1:55.8	smart immigrant or son of immigrants, but instead I ended up being a failure. Obviously, I decided
2:01.1	to put on my play and that play is called the domestic crusaders, which is the day in the life of a
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