This Marjorie Taylor Greene Wish Could Start a Civil War

The New Abnormal

The Daily Beast

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🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Eli Merritt, a political historian at Vanderbilt University and author of a book entitled Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution, joins this episode of The New Abnormal to share what would cause a civil war today, and no spoilers but it relates to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s succession wish. Merritt also tells TNA podcast co-host Danielle Moodie three reasons why the Founding Fathers were supportive of slavery when they could have phased out the practice much earlier (besides racism) and how their reasons for keeping it ties back to what’s going on today. Plus! Like usual, the hosts reacting to clips opens up the show.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:05.4	objector.
0:06.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an
0:14.4	unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.6	And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:22.0	the rails.
0:23.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
0:27.2	people in politics, media and beyond.
0:29.9	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal and hopefully
0:35.3	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.3	Hello and welcome to another Sunday bonus episode of the new abnormal.
0:40.6	We thank you so much for being here.
0:42.6	Today we have an extra special guest with Eli Merritt who's going to talk all about
0:46.8	their new book disunion among ourselves, the perilous politics of the American Revolution.
0:51.9	But first, let's have some fun.
0:54.0	All right, are you guys ready to listen to some clips?
0:56.7	Clip us.
0:57.7	Do it.
0:59.2	So Zach Patrizzo from the Daily Beast has found an amazing clip from a documentary on
1:03.8	Roger Stone who you may know as Trump whisperer of 40 now years where he first says what he
1:09.8	wants the cult to think when he's talking to a crowd and what he wants them to think
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