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The Muckrake Political Podcast

When Postal Workers Become Freedom Fighters

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Episode Description: Donald Trump's attack on the Postal Service is blatant and craven. Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss how the Republican Party has come to embrace the destruction of democratic norms and how Americans, including the Democratic Party, need to step up and oppose it. Also, historian Kristin Kobes du Mez stops by to discuss her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.   To access exclusive episodes and coverage of breaking news, become a Muckrake Podcast patron at http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0

That means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to have it.

0:06.3

I don't know if you realize he was saying that out loud, but I mean, he said it out loud.

0:09.9

Edison, I don't have to. You're asking me to comment? I don't have to comment. He just said it.

0:15.1

If they're not going to approve a big bill, a bigger bill, and they're not going to have the $3.5 billion for the universal

0:22.3

mail-in votes. How can you have those votes?

0:27.3

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack Podcast. I'm Jared Yates-Saxon. As always, Nick

0:31.4

Houseman is here with me. When you're hearing this, it is Tuesday, which means that last

0:37.4

night we stayed up late

0:39.0

covering the Democratic National Convention, which you can join us on for the rest of the week,

0:45.1

live from 9 p.m. Eastern until the whole chabang is over by becoming a patron over at

0:51.2

patreon.com slash muckrake podcast. That's how you can get instant

0:55.8

access to not just bonus episodes, but also our bonus coverage of the national conventions.

1:01.9

Today, we're going to go ahead. We're going to talk about the threat against the postal service.

1:06.4

We're also going to welcome in Kristen Kobez-Dumay, the author of Jesus and John Wayne,

1:11.4

how white evangelicals corrupted of faith and fractured a nation.

1:14.6

Nick, I can't imagine what we're even going to talk about, how that could possibly be relevant

1:19.0

to our moment.

1:20.7

Oh, it's important, nothing.

1:21.9

It might as well be the most random thing you could bring up in a podcast about politics.

1:27.3

Yeah, and so we find ourselves here

1:29.2

in a country right now that is not only glowing with COVID-19, so many unnecessary deaths. We're over

1:36.8

170,000 dead, which I don't know if people are following. We have a lot of schools there

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