Words Matter: Interview with Michael Steele

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele joins Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart to talk about the virtual Republican National Convention, the future of his party, and Donald Trump’s “magic dust” that the press and the political class often miss. Steele explains why he joined the Republican Party in the 1970s. He discusses where the party was heading and how it was growing until 2012. And how under Donald Trump, the GOP has been transformed into haven for racists, grifters, and conspiracy theorists. Recorded August 20, 2020 Words Matter will become part of the CAFE Insider membership product in the coming weeks. Become a member: www.cafe.com/words Sign up to receive the weekly CAFE Brief newsletter which includes analysis by Elie Honig, links to new content, and more: www.cafe.com/brief See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.0	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:15.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:18.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:25.1	Have power and words have consequences.
0:33.1	Hey folks, pre here.
0:35.1	Today we're bringing you another episode of Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:39.7	The podcast is the latest addition to cafes programming.
0:42.9	Each week, Joe and Katie will bring context and understanding
0:45.9	to the often fraught political conversations that dominate our national discourse.
0:50.2	The episodes of Words Matter will be free for the next several weeks and ultimately
0:53.9	will become exclusive to members of Cafe Insider.
0:56.9	Try the membership free for two weeks and get access to the full archive of exclusive content,
1:01.2	including the weekly podcast I co-host with Anne Milgram and much more.
1:05.2	You can do so at cafe.com slash insider.
1:08.5	That's cafe.com slash insider.
1:11.4	And now onto the show.
1:14.0	Our guest today is a politician, lawyer, an author, a columnist,
1:19.6	and a political analyst from 2003 to 2007.
1:23.8	He was the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland.
1:27.0	And from 2009 to 2011, he was the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
1:32.8	Michael Steele is a regular contributor to the route and a political analyst for MSNBC.
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