this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. breaking just moments ago the house just passed a stop gap bill to prevent a government shutdown. wasn t that the whole reason they got rid of kevin mccarthy? oh, okay. well, we are going to bring you more on that later in the show. and on the foreign policy front, biden sits down with xi tomorrow for what is sure to be, the long american surrender. plus, capitol hill turns into the thunder dome. we ll get into all of that later on. but, first, license to kill, that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, growing up as a kid in the 1970s, there were plenty of changes happening in society. there was the withdrawal from vietnam. there was nixon resigning. a gas lines. i remember those. and the jimmy carter malaise. with all of that, i don t remember ever hearing about storiess of mobs committing criminal acts. christmas season more fedex deliveries you a over. now truck drivers aren t just worried about getting packages there
Culture warriors as what you would call the trump-ians. david. call me passe, i m very passe. still in the republican party, but still trying to find a place to land, because it is not with trumpism. one thing that we ve seen, especially since the january 6th insurrection, is that republican state parties especially are drilling down into local races, they re drilling down into operations as far as election workers. i ve heard things like steve bannon has targeted the top 20 clerks in the five states in which president trump lost to actually get them elected into positions. can you talk about the need for democrats to match this and to really, instead of talking a lot of times at 20,000 feet, to get down into the trenches to keep us a democracy? even mainstream republicans.
We now live in this world where, as you say, people have basically completely distorted the history and i ask you as we go forward, whether you have the fear that i have, which is that the 1/6 commission is going to have the same thing happen to it. the trump people are going to run out the clock, we re not going to get to a conclusive answer at the end of next year, republicans take control of the house, the committee ends and we then live in a twilight zone going forward where 1/6 has the same thing done to it that trump s relationship with russia has done to it, which is it s filtered through a partisan lens and we can t see the forest for the trees because this committee has not moved fast enough. there s another thing that will happen with 1/6 and i ve been warning about this a lot, it will go looking for crimes. that s not what you need to know. if i could make one reform to the mainstream media, stop booking former federal prosecutors to talk about these issues. they put it in
Economics and lowering taxes so there will be lots of jobs, the trickle down idea was also just a trojan horse and something that they didn t really believe. yeah, lower taxes for everybody, but all we really care about is lowering taxes for the rich and big business. and the thing about when i started doing my research about evil geniuses, i knew, reagan got elected in 1980, i didn t realize until i did this massive amount of research how much change, what a gigantic shift that was. of course, as we spoke about the other day, it was being built up in the 70s, this alternate paradigm, this conservative counterestablishment was sending people like joe scarborough to congress. but really the before and after in the 80s is so stark in so many ways. really as big a change as the 6 0s or the 30s, which is why i call what happened the raw deal,
Actually give people the protects they promised them when they went off to fight in our name. and one thing that stays with me, mike, the idea that only one half of 1% of americans actually fought in the war since 9/11. and the impact of that has been felt much more deeply in rural areas. twice the number of casualties in small towns and cities as there are in big cities. and we re still reckoning with the effects of it. we have to write it down and document it and read about it in order to know what happened. there is so much at play here, we just scratched the surface. a really good and important new book wildland: the making of america s fury. hope you come back and talk more about this. good to see you. still ahead, our next guest wrote that america risks being, quote, the first large modern society to go from fully developed to failing. a detailed look at how we got where we are economically as a nation. best-selling author curt anderson joins us next on morning joe. hor c