the point of dana s question, do you believe in democracy? he s not saying i ll have better policies on schools and roads, he said if i win, we will have power forever more. that s calling for dictatorship. that is absolutely not what that wrote means. i m literally reading it to you. that means we ll do a good sn enough job governing you could just as likely make the same argument as i made. that is a deeply uncharitable. they stormed the capitol. good god these people don t believe in democracy. so look, at the beginning of this block, we opened up the show by saying this is arguably the most important midterm of our lifetimes. is it not the case that every midterm voters hear that, that every mid material voters hear this is the most important election of our lifetime. i never heard a politician say if i win the other guys don t have a chance again. it sounds like this is just another election. to counter your argument, paul, i would also say that what joe biden
when a president goes into midterm election under 50%, the party in power loses an average of 30 to 35 seats. that s a real concern to us. when you get to the young people s argument, there s no question several constituencies, millennials, hispanics, african-americans republicans have to the a better job appealing to. i give trump credit during the general election campaign he made attempts to do so, probably more than republicans in the past. you can argue he hasn t done as good a job governing, but i think the attempt has been made. unfortunately i m out of time. i would love to give you the last word adrienne. have a great sunday. thanks, alex. in addition to the easter bunny, cries for justice following another fatal police shooting. why does the white house consider such cases local matters?
away this little, i m going to give away this little spoiler for the book, which people should really pick up. that quote, we were eight years in power. what does it come from? it comes from 1895. i believe that itself the year south carolina is rewriting the constitution to basically strip black people of their lives, messages of electoral power in the franchise. thomas miller, who was a congressman during the reconstruction says we were eight years in power. we set up a jail system, education system. we basically reconstructed the state. we did a great job governing. why would you strip us of power? we down understand that at all. implicit in thomas miller s inquiry was the notion that black people, somehow white people were interested in black people doing a good job. the voice retort to that was if anything in south carolina feared better than bad negro government is good negro government. you and i had a long conversation about that moment
south carolina is rewriting the constitution to basically strip black people of their lives, messages of electoral power in the franchise. thomas miller, who was a congressman during the reconstruction says we were eight years in power. we set up a jail system, education system. we basically reconstructed the state. we did a great job governing. why would you strip us of power? we down understand that at all. implicit in thomas miller s inquiry was the notion that black people, somehow white people were interested in black people doing a good job. the voice retort to that was if anything in south carolina feared better than bad negro government is good negro government. you and i had a long conversation about that moment in history, particularly in the wake of the election. yeah. the moment of reconstruction and the redemption that followed. the reason you and i have been talking about, it s a moment where immeasurable progress, it
by and large this is an age group notoriously disengaged. don t you think we should ask young people to become more invested and prove they can be responsible citizens by voting in healthier numbers before we ask them their political opinions? yeah, i think you have to ask them why they re disengaged. obviously, what we have here, we have the people who are changing the world in brilliant young people under 25 but already in positions of leadership. we re not talking about the general population. we did a survey of 2,000 young people age 20 to 29 in the u.s. only 72% of them are going to vote, so 28% are not voting. only 31% of them believe that their voice is listened to. one of the key things that s an opportunity and threat is if the brilliant political leaders and future leaders engage with young people. not only help get them elected but do a better job governing.