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Perfectly fine with it. ali, i think a lot of people don t realize the scary point we re at. the average republican base voter no longer believes democracy can give them the things they want. so they want a strong man and autocrat to deliver. they love a tucker carlson or donald trump using the force of government, if they have to, to deliver things to them. they no longer believe in democracy. i ve always enjoyed policy disagreements and arguments with conservatives like you. i didn t ever think that these things would turn into a discussion about whether we like democracy or autocracy. asma political correspondent for npr and co-host of the npr podcast. joining me now is democratic congress jamaal bowman of new york. he s the vice chair of the ....
Weekend, the new york times says jeffrey rosen provided closed door testimony to the senate committee about the president s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election. rosen did not respond to the new york times s request for comment on his testimony but the pulitzer prize winning reporter who broke this story gathered details anyway. rosen s testimony is adding to the litany of new revelations about how the expresident and his enablers were attempting to tear down democracy. with each piece of new evidence we are now starting to be able to stitch together a time line the former president s efforts to upsend democracy. let s look at of the right now. on december 23rd, bill barr resigns as attorney general after disputing the expresident s false claims of widespread voter fraud. barr s departure elevates the man next to him, jeffrey rosen to acting attorney general. now, on december 27, just four ....
Democracy but has since become less than that. you tweeted. i hear from gop base voters every day, tucker carlson making the place for autocracy over democracy and while you and i are disgusted by this, the gop base isn t. i truly want to believe you re not right about that, but you speak to more republicans on a daily basis than i do. ali, specifically i speak to hundreds and thousands of gop base voters. the most committed energetic voters every day. they had no problem with donald trump acting like a strong man for four years. most of the country, when you really think about what tucker carlson did this week, he was over in hungary bashing our democracy for an autocrat. that disgusts you and me but from hearing gop voters, they re ....
Fighting for me. some americans are quite prepared to overlook stuff like this letter from jeffrey clark or the fact that donald trump tried to get the acting attorney general to intervene in the election. so, ali, one of the core issues if we think about how internet platforms work in ourl authoritarian. and they have been an essential tool for trump and his minions to undermine democracy and now attempt this coup. the challenge that we face is the country for 40 years has deregulated business to the point where businesses like facebook are governments themselves. as barbara said, they make the choices thatual our lives. we have to decide as a country, do we want to be ruled by a handful of very large corporations and potentially a dictator? or would we like to be a democracy where we the people ....