What Does It Mean? A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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We’re at the start of a new year, a new quarter century, and a new administration and a lot is up in the air, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to chat with one of the smartest people I know, about where she thinks America stands in the course of history and what to expect next. The mainstream media has let us down, so now more than ever we need to support those doing independent work. The extremists have been able to shape the mindset of the majority of this nation because the far right invested in their voices. Give people like me a chance to fight back. If you find what we do worthwhile, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, 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! xoPG Guest 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 THANK YOU to today’s sponsors! https://WildGrain.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl https://CookUnity.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl

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0:00.0	We have to move forward. You know, you ask me at one point, how do we stay engaged? We do have to wake up tomorrow and do something. So our options are accepting somebody else dictating our lives to us or insisting on retaining our agency and trying to make the world a better place. And given those two options, I think of a lot of,
0:22.4	listen, nobody wants to face what we're coming up to, but what are our options to do anything
0:28.2	other than trying to make it better?
0:44.5	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.
0:54.3	Today, I'm very happy to be joined by my friend Heather Cox Richardson, the absolutely brilliant writer and intellect, an author of the wildly successful substack, Letters from an American.
0:59.0	The author of seven books on history and politics, Heather is a historian and professor of American history at Boston College, having previously taught at MIT and the University of
1:03.8	Massachusetts Amherst. Since we're at the start of a new year, a new quarter century, and a new
1:08.7	administration, a lot is up in the air. So I thought I would
1:11.5	take this opportunity to chat with one of the smartest people I know about what's going on to
1:16.1	see where she thinks America stands in the course of history. Now, there are no answers right now
1:21.4	about how it's going to be or how you think things are going to go. But I think if you're paying
1:25.2	attention, we know it's not going to be great. But the question is, what do we do with that information? And how do we stay informed without losing
1:32.7	our minds? So without further ado, please welcome someone I hope has insight on that question.
1:37.8	My guest, historian, author, and professor Heather Cox Richardson. Welcome back, Heather.
1:42.9	Thanks for having me. It's a real pleasure.
1:45.0	Well, thank you for coming.
1:46.0	As I was just saying in the introduction, we don't know exactly how it's going to be moving forward
1:51.0	or how things are going to look in the coming months and years under this new administration.
1:55.0	But I think we can safely assume it's not going to be good.
1:58.0	The question is, what do we do with that knowledge, right? How do we continue to stay informed without losing our minds? So I'm going to throw that back at you and say,
2:07.2	I don't think we can assume it's not going to be good because as a historian, I will tell you,
2:11.9	we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. We don't know what's going to happen in an hour
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