206 w/ Damon Root "Packed Courts, Peaceful Transfers of Power"

The Fifth Column

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206 w/ Damon Root "Packed Courts, Peaceful Transfers of Power"

The Fifth Column

Oct 03, 2020

Guest: Damon Root @ Reason Magazine, Author, "A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution"

Trump Makes His Pick
How Republicans Will Be Disappointed
Court Packing And Other Shenanigans
Historical Context, Oppressing People of Color
COVID Rumors
Debate Night Dog Whistles
What Trump Really Means
Vote by Mail (But Throw Out the Ballots)
The First and Only Lady

Recorded Oct 1, 2020

Published Oct 3, 2020

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The Fifth Column

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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