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The Michael Steele Podcast

"We're Not Going Back"

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode "America's Dad vs The Weirdo (with Molly Jong-Fast)"

Michael Steele speaks with MSNBC political analyst, Vanity Fair special correspondent and host of the "Fast Politics" podcast, Molly Jong-Fast. The pair discuss why Tim Walz was the pick for VP over Josh Shapiro and what he'll bring to the campaign, the significance of Kamala's "We're not going back" statement and the impact of the disastrous NABJ-Trump interview.

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is an interesting one for Kamla Harris and her team is this idea of we're not going back.

0:06.1

Yeah.

0:07.1

And it's such a not just powerful but empowering statement in so many ways.

0:15.0

How do you read that language and the elevation of this idea,

0:20.0

we're not going back?

0:22.0

What does it mean for women? What does it mean for women?

0:23.2

What does it mean for people of color across the country?

0:28.0

And what does it mean largely for the country itself?

0:31.6

Well, I think, look, I mean, the Trump's whole stick is that he's going to bring everyone

0:36.8

back to the 1950s. So, and he's been doing that for eight years, right? That we're going to go back to make America great

0:44.2

again again right right you know original but you know it's a it's harkens

0:51.0

back to Charles Lindbergh and Ronald Reagan used the slogan too.

0:55.3

So it is this, you know, there was a time in American life when a white man was king, right?

1:02.4

That's really what they're saying,

1:04.0

is you don't want these people coming to our country.

1:08.0

You don't want women trying to have their fair share.

1:12.0

You know, you don't want, you know, you just want to... to have their fair share.

1:12.6

You know, you don't want, you know, you just want to be by virtue of the fact

1:16.6

that you're a white man gets stuff.

1:19.0

And, and you know, like, I think that was sort of the message and here we have a woman who has I mean that video one of my favorite moments is the video that the

1:30.9

RNC research account tweeted, which was her laughing about how you have to,

1:37.2

if they don't open the doors for you, you have to break down the doors, you know, if they don't open the door behind them behind you. And I think she's,

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