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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

What’s Wrong With The Democratic Party

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In a lively roundtable discussion Ralph talks to top political analysts Thomas Frank and Bill Curry about why, despite the obvious cold-hearted cruelty of the Republican agenda, the Democrats continue to lose.



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0:00.0

From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

0:03.6

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.7

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.8

You've been sitting ready to song.

0:16.9

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host, a man who has been forcefully dragged off of every flight he has ever

0:21.2

boarded. David Feldman.

0:23.0

Hello David.

0:24.0

I'm trying to find out if United Airlines has any suggestions on how we can

0:28.0

get Neil Gorsuch to give up his seat.

0:30.0

Right. Well, and we also have the man who most people don't realize is the reason why you get

0:39.3

compensated for being bumped from a flight.

0:41.2

We're going to talk about that a bit later in the show. And that was because Allegheny Airlines did it to him in 1974. The man of the hour Ralph Nader. Hello, we've got a real top flight show coming up. I don't think the listeners are going to hear such depth on the

0:56.2

state of part of the Democratic Party and politics in America as they're going to hear in the next 50 minutes or so.

1:04.0

That's right. We were going to have a round-table style political discussion today with two

1:08.0

returning guests who also happen to be a couple of the most astute observers of the

1:12.4

political scene today.

1:14.0

I'm talking about Thomas Frank and Bill Curry.

1:17.0

So let's get right to it.

1:18.0

We've had about two and a half months of a tumultuous Trump administration, plenty of controversy there from an attempted Muslim ban to a

1:24.8

failed effort to repeal Obamacare, to fending off accusations of colluding with the Russians,

1:30.1

to influence the election, to installing a new Supreme Court justice to bombing a Syrian air base.

1:36.1

But our question today is how have the Democrats performed through all of this?

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