What Reconstruction and the New Deal Can Teach Us About What Comes After the Pandemic Presidency

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🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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David Blight, Pulitzer prize winning author of "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" and a Yale history professor, discusses the era of Reconstruction, the swift dismantling of its hard fought gains, and the enduring power of white supremacy. As Joe Biden talks of building a presidency in the spirit of FDR and the New Deal, Greg Grandin, whose book "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" won the 2020 Pulitzer in nonfiction, discusses the battle for the New Deal, who was left out of its gains, and analyzes what such a program would look like in the aftermath of the Trump presidency.

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0:00.0	The former Vice President is just like the rest of us getting used to doing things in a new way
0:05.0	and for a major political candidate that means campaigning virtually.
0:09.2	Please welcome Vice President, who died.
0:11.9	Can I introduce me?
0:13.2	Oh, you could have me.
0:16.4	I so much for tuning in.
0:17.7	His first foray into Florida with a rally marketed for Tampa Bay was filled with choppy video
0:23.6	and even long periods of complete black.
0:25.8	Please welcome former governor, Congressman Charlie Christ.
0:29.1	What? Sir, I thought you was half the mule like he's going to.
0:35.9	At one point about 2600 people were watching live on YouTube,
0:39.9	though the number dropped to about 2000 as the tech problems went on.
0:44.0	Please welcome Florida senator, Janet Critt.
0:47.9	Well, some starens my arms, Linda.
0:53.6	It's only May the general election is not until November,
0:56.8	so there's plenty of time for the Biden campaign to straighten out their digital operation.
1:01.9	Nothing we cannot accomplish if we work together.
1:06.3	Come this November, we're going to prove it.
1:09.3	I will be together now.
1:11.2	Thank you.
1:12.6	Thank you all for being with me.
1:26.8	This is intercepted.
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