'This Is What Democracy Looks Like. And It Kinda Sucks.'

The Reason Roundtable

Politics, News

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie survey the political landscape...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the reason round table your weekly libertarian podcast from the magazine that
0:07.0	is not on your ballot this Tuesday.
0:09.6	See, can't play Moss.
0:10.6	I am Matt Welch joined by Nick Gillespie making weird guttural noises, Peter Superman and
0:16.3	Catherine Mangu giggling ward.
0:19.0	How do you do fellow citizens?
0:21.0	Howdy.
0:22.0	Matt, that was the worst and trippy midterm madness Monday.
0:28.4	Ooh, a little alliteration to start out our week.
0:32.3	Let's get straight to it.
0:34.5	The fate of democracy is in your hands.
0:39.0	President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr said yesterday warned MSNBC historian Michael Beschloss.
0:45.8	What's at stake is whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will
0:50.6	be arrested and conceivably killed, counters Carl Rowe, the Republican strategist formerly
0:58.0	known as Bush's Brain.
0:59.4	The geniuses in the West Wing thought they could make the election about anything they
1:02.1	wanted it to be about a midterm election in particular is about what the people wanted
1:07.0	to be about.
1:08.0	Deep thoughts from Carl Rowe.
1:09.6	So in Republicans reading the election is about crime, it's about inflation, it's about
1:15.4	the economy, it's about COVID, it's about immigration.
1:18.7	Immigration.
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