Trump Isn’t a Bug. He's a Feature. | Hear Me Out

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: live from Seattle.
Hear Me Out had its first-ever live show on May 4, 2024 - and it was such a great conversation that we wanted to make sure our podcast listeners heard it, too.
The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival was full of smart, unconventional thinkers on the biggest issues facing this country… so what better place to have a conversation about Donald Trump, and the future of this country?
It’s tempting to think of the MAGA ideology as an unprecedented threat to democracy. But is it? Or are the authoritarian, anti-democratic ideas percolating into our mainstream politics a feature, rather than a bug?
Historian and author Heather Cox Richardson joined us in Seattle.
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Podcast production by Maura Currie.
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It is so delightful to hear intellegent, open minded people talk about difficult topics, sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing, always informative, alwys respectful. Please devote more podcasts to the origins of the constitution, and let the conversations go wherever you wish.

[@tammielynn8273]

Excellent discussion.

[@mrfranksan]

Shirley Chisholm said if you’re not invited to take a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

[@kurtfisher1379]

Speaker is historian Helen Cox-Richardson. That is disclosed 5 min.s in and not in the header notes.

[@utopianna]

Women, Indigenous People and Enslaved People were not the beneficiaries. We know this to be true but to hear a discussion on the haves and have-nots might really help us see and understand why we are where we are today. Roots and Remnants.