TOCQUEVILLE’S AMERICA

DINESH Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.7 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Dinesh focuses on the relevance for today of Tocqueville’s classic work, “Democracy in America.” Dinesh argues that the founding was a blueprint for a new type of society that took 50 years to build. Consequently, Tocqueville’s America reflects the America the founders sought to create. This, Dinesh shows, is precisely the America that conservatives seek now to conserve. Dinesh examines Tocqueville’s observations on participatory democracy, social equality, entrepreneurship, Christianity, what Tocqueville calls “the three races in America,” and finally and somewhat prophetically, the peculiar type of despotism that Tocqueville feared might eventually arise.

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0:00.0	This is a special edition of the podcast focusing on Tokvils democracy in America. Why?
0:06.5	Because the America that Tokvils describes is precisely the America we're trying to conserve.
0:12.9	This is the Dineshtus who's a podcast.
0:26.2	America needs this voice.
0:28.2	The times are crazy and the time of confusion, division and lies.
0:32.6	We need a brave voice of reason, understanding and truth.
0:36.2	This is the Dineshtus who's a podcast.
0:45.0	We're having a big political debate in this country.
0:47.4	Well, I don't know if debate is the right term.
0:50.1	It seems more like a brawl.
0:52.1	But what is the brawl over?
0:55.3	What are we fighting about?
0:57.5	Well, we're fighting about America and the future of America.
1:03.3	But which future?
1:05.8	It sometimes seems like we are the party of America and the other side is anti-American.
1:12.0	We sometimes hear that rhetoric and I've used that rhetoric myself.
1:16.8	It's not entirely precise because it's not that we are for America and they are against America.
1:24.2	We really want and are fighting about two very different conceptions of America.
1:31.8	Now, a couple of years ago, maybe three or four years ago now, I debated Bill Eris.
1:38.8	This is, yes, the former domestic terrorist Bill Eris, the far leftist Bill Eris at Dartmouth College.
1:45.2	And we were debating what's so great about America.
1:48.0	And you might expect that Bill Eris would have taken the position, well, America's not great.
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