The Threat Still Looms at the Door with Michael Steele

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Former Lt. Governor of Maryland and Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele. They discuss how the current day GOP has devolved into leaving behind so many Americans, the dangers that come from not being able to accurately predict Trumpism/ultra-MAGA in polls, and how Trumpism (under the guise of patriotism) strips away the tenets of what it means to be an American. Plus, a look at what to expect in the 2022 midterms now that election day is about a month and a half away. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].

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0:31.9	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today I'm joined by Michael
0:37.3	Steel, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former chairman of the Republican National Committee,
0:42.7	post of the Michael Steel podcast available wherever fine podcast are found and a political
0:48.4	analyst for MSNBC. Michael, welcome to the show. Hey, Reed, it's always a pleasure to be in your
0:53.7	neighborhood, brother. No, and you were a couple of weeks ago and we got to sit in Salt Lake City
0:58.5	and have a cup of coffee and as I said then I wish I'd just brought my tape recorder with me and
1:02.5	we'd saved ourselves some trouble but I'm glad to have you. So Michael, there's a lot going on,
1:07.2	but given your electoral position as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and then subsequently as chairman
1:15.1	of the Republican National Committee, I think a lot of the listeners had probably seen you on MSNBC
1:20.9	had probably heard you on your podcast and other podcasts, but how did you become a Republican in
1:26.6	the first place? My mama raised me well. I'm sure she did that. There's no question about it.
1:33.2	And that's saying, I like it's my mama's a Roosevelt Democrat. She still is to this day at 95
1:38.0	years old, but a big part of it was that aspect of what Republicans used to articulate about
1:46.4	individual rights and freedoms, a respect for the rule of law. Certainly a very difficult message
1:53.2	for a young black mother to deliver to her black son growing up in a segregated nation's capital
1:58.9	which Washington was at the time I was growing up to inspire in him a belief that all of this
2:07.6	is for me too. Despite all the difficulties, all of the trials and tribulations she had gone through,
2:14.4	my mother always kind of talked about the fact that you're going to go out and make your own way.
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