What Next - GOP to Cities: Drop Dead
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Republican rhetoric paints America’s cities as cesspools of crime, homeless and, uh, out-of-touch elites, and the party has largely given up courting urban voters. The GOP may be able to hold on to power thanks to voting systems that favor rural areas, but legislating as though their responsibilities stop at the city lines is a growing concern for the Americans who actually live there.
Guest: Henry Grabar, staff writer at Slate.
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| 1:41.8 | I'm going to tell you the story of a guy named Darren Bailey |
| 1:45.2 | and his very strange decision to move himself to a city that he hates. |
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