Trump's "Magic Dust" with Michael Steele

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele joins Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart to talk about the virtual Republican National Convention, the future of his party, and Donald Trump’s “magic dust” with voters that the press and the political class often miss. Steele explains why he joined the Republican Party in the 1970s. He discusses where the party was heading then, and how it continued to grow until 2012. And Steele details how under Donald Trump, the GOP has been transformed into haven for racists, grifters, and conspiracy theorists. Recorded August 20, 2020 Words Matter will become part of the CAFE Insider membership product in the coming weeks. Become a member: www.cafe.com/words Sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter which includes analysis by Elie Honig, links to new content, and more: www.cafe.com/brief Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	We are so excited to announce that Words Matter Media is partnering with Cafe Studios to
0:39.4	bring you a new season of the Words Matter podcast.
0:43.6	Cafe strives to inform its listeners about the most critical issues of the day.
0:49.2	Each week Katie and I will do our best to bring facts and context to the often fraught political
0:54.5	conversations that dominate our national discourse.
0:58.0	We'll be speaking with an array of guests, including people who've made a great impact on American
1:02.2	politics or who make it their business to understand what's really happening in Washington.
1:08.1	For now, you can continue to listen to episodes of Words Matter for free.
1:12.2	In the coming weeks, the show will be available exclusively to members of Cafe Insider.
1:18.0	And we hope you'll consider joining the Insider community,
1:21.0	whose members enjoy a collection of podcasts created for engaged citizens around the world.
1:27.6	You can head to cafe.com slash words to get two free weeks of membership.
1:33.7	That's cafe.com slash words.
1:38.0	You'll get access to all future episodes of Words Matter and other exclusive content,
1:43.5	including the Insider podcast co-hosted by Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern
1:49.0	District of New York, and then MailGrum, former New Jersey Attorney General,
1:53.8	along with much more exclusive content.
1:56.9	That's cafe.com slash words.
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