Who is Democracy For?- PG:CC w/ Thomas Zimmer

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Republican Party hasn’t just lost their minds and become anti-democratic overnight. Democracy was always less important to them than power, so as long as democracy upheld their power they supported it, now that it doesn’t, it’s out. The goal is clear: 1950’s style white, Christian, male dominance and they’ve been plotting to bring it back since the Democratic Party betrayed the idea by opening their minds & party to expanding civil rights in the 1960’s. Today’s PoliticsGirl: Candid Conversation is with Thomas Zimmer historian, author and Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he teaches 20th Century U.S. and International history, with a focus on the transatlantic history of democracy and we talk all about the danger the country is in, the reality of how we got here and the potential we have to create something that not only saves democracy but really lives up to its promise. It’s a great conversation with a brilliant mind. I hope you enjoy it. Guest social: Website: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0033600001q9V3MAAU/thomas-zimmer Twitter: @tzimmer_history 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! www.athleticgreens.com/politicsgirl www.betterhelp.com/politicsgirl www.constantcontact.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I feel like what happened in Texas is actually the perfect example of every talking point
0:06.8	that the right is ever given, being wrong.
0:09.5	Good guy with a gun will stop a bad guy with a gun.
0:11.6	You literally had an arsenal of good guys with a gun trained men with a gun who did zip.
0:17.1	We should close all doors and lock like we're going to make these students living in
0:20.5	prisons to go to school.
0:21.8	No, that's not freedom.
0:23.1	That's not what you're talking about.
0:24.1	Every talking point that they've ever had in this one mass shooting sort of blew up and
0:30.8	people are not moving past it.
0:33.5	They're just not willing to let it go and I think that's essential.
0:38.8	Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast.
0:50.4	I'm your host, Lee McGowan.
0:51.9	Let's get into it.
0:53.2	So I do this podcast in many ways in response to today's broken world.
0:57.4	I started this project as a way to put my feelings somewhere, to not just complain but
1:01.7	to explain, to engage, to remind people why democracy is important, that the American
1:07.6	experiment is just that, an experiment, an experiments can fail.
1:12.1	I wanted people to understand that we need to put in the work if we want to keep living
1:16.2	in the kind of country we keep telling the world we are.
1:19.1	I wanted my rants to make you feel heard and seen and give you insight and inspire you,
1:24.1	but I wanted this podcast to go deeper.
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