Will the Union Survive? With CNN's Ron Brownstein
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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ron Brownstein is one of the sharpest analysts of American politics. He is a Senior CNN Political Analyst and a Senior Editor for The Atlantic. He's been reporting and writing about the radical rollback of rights in Red states and he has a new analysis based on years of data research that explains why are politics is so evenly divided. And perhaps irreconcilable. Ron's CNN work can be found here. His work for The Atlantic here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, good to see you again, and welcome back. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:13.2 | Well, as you know, America is so hopelessly politically divided these days that some politicians, |
| 0:19.2 | notably Marjorie Taylor Green, have said, we're heading to a |
| 0:23.1 | national divorce. But in the Atlantic magazine, political analyst Ron Brownstein argues just the |
| 0:29.6 | opposite. We're not heading to a national divorce. He says, we're already there. Over a dozen states, |
| 0:37.3 | Brownstein points out, MAGA states, are already |
| 0:40.6 | separating from traditional American policies and values as part of what he's identified as a |
| 0:46.6 | soft secession. And that's reflected in the makeup of Congress. You want to know why the House |
| 0:53.8 | of Representatives doesn't work anymore? |
| 0:56.2 | Look at the difference between Republican and Democratic districts in terms of racial |
| 1:01.3 | diversity and the level of higher education. |
| 1:04.4 | So where does that leave the Republican Party and the Democratic Party heading into |
| 1:08.8 | 2024? |
| 1:10.8 | Ron Brownstein, whom you read in the Atlantic and see often on CNN. Party and the Democratic Party heading into 2024. |
| 1:10.9 | Ron Brownstein, whom you read in the Atlantic and see often on CNN, joins us today to talk |
| 1:17.5 | more about what he calls the four quadrants of American politics. |
| 1:22.8 | Ron Brown Brownstein, welcome back. |
| 1:25.2 | Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:27.2 | Bill, good to be with you. Good, good to be on the Bill Press |
| 1:29.7 | pod. Okay. You know, all these iterations, right? I mean, you know, I've been with you on radio, |
| 1:36.2 | on television, you know, and it's kind of, that's what we do, Ron. We reinvent ourselves, right? |
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