Best Of: Heather Cox Richardson on Our Democracy
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- One of my favorite episodes from this year (so far). The historian on her bestseller "Democracy Awakening" and how America's democracy is on a knife's edge. Perfect for July 4th weekend!
I'm 70 years old, but when I "grow up," I want to be able to write as well as Ms. Cox. She's brilliant.
Thank you for the idea that WE are *conservatives.* We are the ones who wish to *conserve* our democracy.
Amen!!!
By replacing Biden?
@@fredgarvinMPNo, that’s just media madness. Take a look at the other candidate. Fraudulent criminal, and crickets from the “liberal” media.
@@fredgarvinMP no
@@marymccabe5829 God help us...
Excellent HCR! Great conversation, for a change.😊
Thank you for sharing to keep our Democracy 🇺🇸
Heather is awesome. Beast mode. ❤❤❤
Great discussion ❤
Thanks Heather. Thanks Al. Fabulous information. Hope reigns supreme.
i absolutely love listening to heather, she is so brilliant! and listening to you, with your political experience, was such a treat. i wish you could have stayed in the senate for my beautiful state of minnesota! take care, and please get her back on your show asap.
What a great interview. I learned a few interesting things I didn’t know before. Thank you!😊
She is amazing. How can one make history alive ? She does. So greatful for her.
Heather is a treasure. Thank you! ❤☘
Thank you, Heather and Al, for clearing these issues up for me, a Canadian. It is important to be in the know.
Heather is a pundit, not a historian.
@@fredgarvinMP Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian.
@fredgarvinMP Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College. She is also a pundit in that she speaks about history and how we got where we are now. If your aim is to disparage her, your calling her a pundit makes no sense... unless you didn't know she was a professor in the field she speaks and writes about.
Just trying to put her down by using a nasty-sounding word while actually telling the truth to a bunch of rubes? Wrong audience to try that hoary tactic.
@@donttrudd2310 Her wilful bending of history for political purposes puts her more firmly in the pundit category.
With gratitude!!!!
AWESOME SHOW!❤️
This was so informative and useful. Thank you.
Two of my favorite people on the planet in the same place! Thank you!
wonderful podcast.
Heather is a national treasure ❤
The " tail wagging the dog "- concept comes to mind. Thanks great program💠
As a student of political history all my 69 years…I throughly enjoyed this conversation 💙Best to you both and us all in n this epic fight for our democracy 🇺🇸
Great discussion! Thanks
I love HCR. She is honest and tells it like it is. Thank you for having her on as a guest.
One of the best podcast!❤
Love you both!
Excellent interview!!
Thanks Al, and Heather.
Thanks, Al. Listening to Heather's perspective on Democracy was great. We're living in a critical and dangerous time . I hope people realize how catastrophic it will be if Democrats don't win this election in November.
This was excellent !
What a wonderful show, you know, for a CHANGE🤞
THANK YOU for bringing HCR on your program
Thank you for this discussion!
I totally agree about Rush Limbaugh bringing it on! Saw it with my Dad! He was addicted to Rush, then FOX, and now Trump. Worships all three while he reads the Bible every night. Scary as hell.
Sorry about your Dad, I have several family members who have been Republicans for years and I never talk to them anymore
@@J.M.-nb4gw Majority of my family is the same. I can't talk to them anymore this year. They can't not scream about their politics. It's sad.
In my younger years I listened to Limbaugh on the car radio, mainly for entertainment. Then one day a light-bulb went on and I thought, "What the heck is this racial hate I'm listening to?"
What did Rush say that wasn't true?
What did Rush say that wasn’t true? Everything he said. Rush was a right wing liar and a piece of $hit.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Heather Cox Richardson is absolutely brilliant! Especially her take on the chief justice, I won't even say his disgusting name.
Awesome interview 👏 😊
Wonderful interview thank you so much for the discussion!
Thank you Heather. Thank you Al.
Excellent book ! Great interview! Thank you both!
A great one. Listen to Ms Cox Richardson.
I just love and admire both of you. Thank you for doing what you do and being who you are.
Thank you.
Great show. Thanks.
THANK YOU!
"sit in my kayak and eat m&m's" - girl, you speak to my heart
Brilliant, she's so smart
Thank you!
A lyric that struck a chord recently, a viewpoint of young voters, “ With leaders like this, how can you not get high”. Speaking of “getting into the weeds.” Thank you. My feet are smiling.
HCR is a national treasure.
The instant trump said “fake news”, I knew what he was.
Yeah❤! in CANADA 🇨🇦 😎 😍 we call Trump "Herman The German"- Orange 🍊 😀 🍊 🟧 Jabba-the-Hutt - bringing Herr Doctor Josef Goebbels to America!
That's how narcissistic personalities roll: Confession and projection. They hate the people they can fool to buy-into their crazy thought processes and ideas because they forewarn them.
Even though they, NPD's don't want to be opposed or critiqued for the control obsessed inhumane folks they are, if they respect anyone, or anything for that matter, it is those who know what they are up to -- very weird! I grew up with a mother who schooled this understanding of her NPD ways and habits. It's a fixed personality -- it doesn't -- it can't -- self-correct or change because they are never wrong in their minds!!
"alternate facts"
don't be forget open borders
He was right. The cover up of Biden's senility by the main stream media is one of the best exemple. To deny facts or simply not covering them is manipulative journalism.
“Gerrymandered up the ‘wazoo’.” Indeed. Thank you Al for bringing this particularly brilliant historian to the forefront of your podcast. I knew we were in trouble with language back in the sixties when the perfectly accurate slogan on abortion rights went from ‘A Woman’s Right to Choose’ - to the republicans counter slogan ‘Right to life’ and reduced even further (apparently for the slogan impaired) to ‘Pro Life’, with no word alteration from the lib’s for a rebuttal. Liberals then as now thought they were on the right side of history, indeed that’s true ,but failed to recognise then as now they were up against a contingent that could not possibly care less what side of history they’re on nor who would suffer the most collateral damage even if it turned out to be themselves.
I want Dr Richardson to be my mom. Or cool aunt. Basically I just want to be able to spend an evening at the dinner table absorbing everything she has to say. Doesn’t matter if it’s about politics or the life of a Maine fisherman….
She is DEFINITELY on my dream dinner party guest list!🙂
Thank you Heather for accepting Al’s invitation and thank you Senator Franken for asking her to join you. Now, if the Ann Coulters of the world would listen.
oh I remember al (watch it)
Such great concepts discussed here! Logical fallacies that cause illogical thinking has become so powerful with the masses. How to evolve them past this, and past their wanting to just "follow the leader" instead of the extra effort to be rational and humble thinkers...
When the singularity of news reporting was more uniform back before social media, the "reality source" we drew information from could help people digest.
Being at the brink of democracy losing its value is so scary.
That is the REAL STAKE that Trump is diverting people away from.
Thank you for posting this interview. HCR is amazing!
The media that interviews Trump is mostly safe, softball, dumbness. Trump needs to be held accountable for everything that comes out of his mouth. Sustained, deep seated thoughtful questions, not short of interrogation. A good example is Trump’s personal take on climate change. He needs to be asked to support his thought with scientific verification not his personal opinion or his unsupported lies. Trump does not know how to be honest, the truth never gave him purchase on reality.
Media jumps on any little Biden goof, covers up Trump's 1) racist, violent extremism, and 2) his horrifyin senile dementia.
Listening in from Cape York, Australia and enjoy learning from your show.
wonderful, wonderful and so inspiring!
Why are you not concentrating on Trump and Project 2025?
You don't see it but he is doing just that. one dimensional thinking... hey you and biden have a lot in common
Trump and now Project 2025 are very much the context.
🎯🎯🎯
Because it's easier to bitch about the President than the wannabe Dictator
Because that's another podcast.
Great One.
I’m sure HCR would deny that she’s prescient. But to listen to her talk about the near-past and the present is like reading a really good history book from the year 2150.
Sadly, Franken blew it for me, in his opening media-bashing of the best and most important President since FDR.
Heather is the best also Leo KOTKE, thanks AL
So disappointed to hear Al piling it on after saying he doesn't want to pile it on
If you didn't want to why open your show with it? Dem's in disarray is how it plays out; give it a rest and let JB & crew figure it out
When it comes down to it; it's about the brand - Which brand do you prefer? the blue hat or red hat? trump or biden? GOP or Dem? Gotta show up in November to decide this one
I can't give my little "Like" to Franken after his gratuitous slam of Biden in America's worst crisis since the 1930's.
honestly, i wish your pod casts were shorter,
but there just is no filler.
the full hour is jammed packed with relevant
information that pretty much keeps me on the edge of my seat.
Love HCR. Disappointed in Al.
Great show!
always loved franken but here we are again... analyzing the issue to death while the psychopaths are busy stealing the country
Yep exactly 💯 none of it really matters much since we're totally screwed already, prepare for total ecological and economic collapse in less than 10 years 😢
Regrettably, Franken screwed the pooch, hopping on the media bandwagon against Biden, our only hope against Trumpism. Any gratuitous criticism of Biden is increasing the threat from Trump and Project 2025.
Love her
Permission has been given for mainstream media to tell the truth.
Won't do it cause if it gets back to the white house, they will be arrested and jailed, per what he promised.
Yeh, when Mr. Media Manipulator isn't monopolizing and sucking up every moment of AIR.😤
@@jannichi6431 Yep that's exactly what goes on every day. I want to say more, I would probably have so much to say just from the observations I have made to myself lol, which are funny just never thought I would ever even think.
I got to see Leo Kotke last year. The man is amazing!
Yay! Have tix for tomorrow night at a small (300 seat) venue. Really looking forward to a special evening.
Blast from the past. Couldn't remember the date, found the email. What a great show it was.
Leo Kottke & Leon Redbone
Hemmens Cultural Center - Hemmens Theatre
Elgin, IL
USA
Saturday , 3/29/08 , 8:00PM
MAIN FLOOR
Section Row Seat Price
FLOR J 28 $36.00
FLOR J 29 $36.00
I just saw him last weekend ... on Vancouver island, BC
Al, Even Biden does sarcasm. There is no better horse for this race.
Just yesterday Trump allegedly invited oil barons to Mara Lago and said that if they found him a billion dollars for his campaign he would guarantee ridding restraints for drilling and environmental dangers.
Like everything going on today, they're not even trying to hide their huge corruption anymore.
Good, we need to be energy independent.
@@fredgarvinMP We are independent. We have tons of oil and we are actively accessing it. The point seems to have gone over your head.
Been thinking about you a lot the last week or so. Good show.
I love you both. Thanks for spreading the real feal!
You can not fix a broken political system, without first addressing the broken education system. They rich are taught one thing, in luxury, the poor are taught another, in despair.
"I don't think I did" really stood out to me, too. I'm getting more and more excited about a Kamala candidacy every day.
Kamala in 2028. I think the time may finally come when she's ready to "pack" the corrupt Supreme Court.
I took that to mean "I saw some clips. I don't think I saw the whole thing." Yeah, I wish he had been more explicit, butI hear people talk like this all the time. Stephanopoulos jumped right to the next question, so he didn't habe much chance to elaborate. This seems like non-evidence to me.
He was probably shown segments of that debate by his re-election campaign…
You don't want to pile on, then you do
Wow! What a pleasant surprise...you know, for a change. Very enjoyable conversation with such a knowledgeable guest. Was it coercion or blackmail that got her back on the show?
Republicans in charge of anything has been keeping me up day and night since 1980. 🙊🙉🙈
This was a great show. More with this guest!
Thanks Heather and Al. Love "Lincoln conservative." The radical right is reactionary. They want to return to monarchy and social classes that have different legal rights ingrained in law.
Lots of great information.
Trump is a total creation of NBC,like Ronnie Raygun was
Yeah, you see that too? I like Seth Meyers but is symbiotic to Donald.... or maybe parasitic.... idk but NBC has odd agenda indeed.
Well, no, it’s actually the would-be oligarchs, but they’ve learned how to use media to amplify and spread their lies. Murdoch’s empire is clearly in the tank, but even relatively even-handed news services fall for the clever lies.
Don't forgive Mark Burnett, either.
Great interview!
My only complaint, Mr Franken, is your opening. Now is not the time to turn away from Biden. Primaries are over, he's done a great job, and the next best candidate is already his VP. I'm perfectly confident Harris will step in when needed.
And if Biden retires in his second term, Harris will be free to pick who she thinks is the *best* VP, without worrying about who compliments her, who pulls which state or constituency. I'm ALL IN. 💙
She reminds me of our Civil War historian!
Great listen
Lincoln had big balls.
Great Broadcast Al and Heather. The members of the supreme court should be part of the election process and we as citizens should be able to retain or dismiss every 4 years. Minority rule led by the Supreme Court is not a democracy. There also needs to a path of dismissal for not reclusing when they have a conflict of interest and not reporting on lavish gifts. They have shown us the holes in our democracy.
Al Franken, I need to hear you. You make more sense than many other commentators.
My understanding is that about 40 to 50% of the inflation is from excessive corporate profits which is due to a failure to "regulate business" which in turn may be due to Biden keeping Jerome Powell as head of the Fed.
Good social-history background to this is Richardson's "How the South Won the Civil War" (2020). Not a happy book but well worth reading.
Well, my man!, as Bob & Doug Mackenzie are wont to say, "hey, hoser, take-off, eh!, we liked 👍 you a lot better when you were in the Senate! --you let us down, eh?, when you went voluntarilyinto the Penalty Box!, we were hoping you'd give Mitch McConnel a "Minnesota North Star shave", *called in Canada the "Chico Maki haircut' /(a.k.a. the "Teddy Greene Mohawk Chop" !+qp🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🍁 (close shave with a Hockey stick!) - anyway, this is your BEST PODCAST by a Country Mile!- Heather Cox Richardson is the SMARTEST!,COMMENTATOR! PRESENT DAY!, on AMERICA. PERIOD. Her insights!, and YOUR efforts in Promulgating them!-may well save America!-She cuts through the Republican bull-shite!, the way the Massachusetts 54th cut through the Confederate defences at Fort Wagner! Well done Chaps! Lets hear more!
well this actually was a great one for a very refreshing change
I wish the next President could be one of you two fine people!
Shame on you, Al Franklin! As someone who was driven from office, YOU, of all people, should be wary of unwarranted calls for resignation!
I agree with you
I never supposed Franken would jump on the crappy media bandwagon. Just goes to show!
Al will rethink, I'm confident. It's just group panic. We need to listen to Bulwark, TLP, Michael Steel, Rick Wilson, and Steve Schmidt who are saying Democrats need to get back to work to save our democracy!
Mr.Franklin I enjoy you on snl and I still enjoy listen to you on politics. When is it your turn to drive 😅
Interesting bait & switch, sir. You articulated my own takes on the ABC interview in your introduction. But the only reason I clicked on it was to hear Heather. 😂
That unexpected, gratuitous slam on the capable and essential Biden was really unnecessary and nasty.
Flooding the zone with s* includes electric batteries on boats and sharks.
Clear, clinical evidence of senile dementia, covered up by the media.
At the start your George joke, almost made me spit-my coffee😊😂
Just stating that 80 percent of Americans support "basic" gun safety laws and abortion rights is only part of the picture. When you go a step further and start getting into specifics of policy is always where things get contentious.
That stat obviously doesnt mean that 80 percent of Americans support things like Federal assualt weapon bans or necessarily any of the specific Democrat party proposals. It means that 80 percent of Americans are ok with what they see as "commom sense" gun laws and they dont want abortion to be banned but may have a fair bit of variance on the time frame they think abortion should be allowed.