We Want Our Rules Based Life Back: A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Right now we are dealing with a government who have captured all levels of federal power, and are working overtime to keep up their long standing plan to divide us so we don’t unite to fight back. Trump wants America to conform to the America he has in his head, but he can’t do it alone, so he defers to people like Russel Vought and Steven Miller who want to burn it all down to rebuild the country in their own image. This is something we simply can’t allow, but to stop it we’re going to have to work together. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPGGuest social:Letters from an American: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/ Insta: @heathercoxrichardson Twitter: @HC_Richardson As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: ⁠https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl⁠ This episode is sponsored by… https://mudwtr.com code: politicsgirl https://oneskin.co code: politicsgirl https://nakedwines.com/politicsgirl click: enter voucher code: politicsgirl https://JonesRoadBeauty.com code: politicsgirl

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0:00.0	We the people organizing, that's what America has a tradition of.
0:05.1	That's what I see happening.
0:07.2	And if I were somebody trying to stand against 341 million people who are saying we are the people
0:14.4	and we want our rules-based life back, I'd be nervous.
0:33.2	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:38.4	Today I'm very happy to be joined by my friend Heather Cox Richardson, the absolutely brilliant writer and intellect, author of the wildly successful substacked letters from an American,
0:43.0	and my go-to for a sense of calm amidst the chaos.
0:46.4	The author of seven books on history and politics, Heather is a historian and professor
0:50.6	of American history at Boston College, having previously taught at MIT and the
0:54.3	University of Massachusetts Amherst. The country feels like it's on fire right now. For the thinking
0:59.8	people of America and anyone who actually knows the definition of fascism and authoritarianism,
1:04.7	every day feels like an attack. We are being gaslit, lied to, propagandized. Our president said he hates 50% of this country in a live, televised memorial, while
1:14.9	his deputy chief of staff gave a Nazi-level hate speech at the same event.
1:19.6	We have political violence from the right being blamed on the left.
1:22.6	Our president humiliated our country on the world stage at the UN.
1:25.9	Our government could be shutting down, wars are imminent
1:28.3	around the world, and our generals are being called in for an emergency meeting and no one knows why.
1:33.3	Overall, it is a mess, with the American leader dividing the country and the world into friends and enemies.
1:39.3	And I wanted to share Heather's insights with you about where we are and where we go from here
1:44.6	at this very important moment in time. So without further ado, please welcome my guest, historian,
1:50.4	author, and my personal smart lady guru, Heather Cox Richardson. Welcome back, Heather.
1:55.6	That's always a pleasure to be here. Well, thank you for coming. I was definitely stalking
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