holocaust? what? believe me, that s come up. the super inten demt of that school district has since apologized but the texas law is still in the books helping to emboldened parents that impose any idea or conversation on anything that might make white people feel bad. elevating one group, white christian america s feelings over the facts about history as if jewish children haven t had to process their feelings about facts like the state sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million jewish people by the nazi regime and black children for the entire history of this country haven t had to process their feelings about facts like the kidnapping of millions of africans throughout the new world who were forced to endure the soul crushing torture of slavery by lynching and jim crow if they were even taught about the facts. in the whitewashed daughters of confederate dictated non-white children are expected to suck it up and sorry, asian-american kids, all you get are the chines
to assert his dominance in public and behind the scenes s the washington post reports in a few accounting. they are holding is a rally, he said don t vote, it s a label applying to basically any efforts that don t help republicans or their own separate efforts to attack voting rights and anything that offers people to vote or might vote against republicans. the context matters, before november 16th, many elected republicans are out there claiming they were standing up to donald trump. you watched the news. we lived through this together. you may recall prominent names from reince priebus to lindsey graham, graham famously condemned trump then as a race-baiting bigot. after 2020, other elected republicans sought distance, mitch mcconnell says he was open to impeachment and they sound different in those early january days. it might have seemed like some kind of shift after the violence was unleashed on the capitol, itself. it turns out it was another piece of clumsy positioni
Grateful. the beat with ari starts right now. i am ari melber. president biding is pushing his party to make a deal while republicans are trying to block the president in ap effort i m about to show you, this is important, an effort that goes beyond typical opposition politics. it turns more on trying to cast joe biden as some kind of illegitimate leader while the gop advocates for donald trump s return. make the the republican arm nrcc not trying to hide an assume fail the i to trump analysts are labeling the entire gop something of a cult because of things like this. this is brand if you. take a look a. fundraising pitch that tells the party s own republican donors, are you a traitor. you abandoned trump. and warns if they don t do the right thing, they ll be branded a desserter, a part of the loser
During the fall election when they tried to make it seem as though police reforms were actually contributing to an uptick in crime. but i do have to say, ari, that all of those protesters were very successful in many states and many local governments change did happen. but i m not going to give up. i m going to continue to hope we can get something passed in the senate. i appreciate you noting in the house, we did our job, we did our job twice. i say that as a journalist and someone who looks at legal issues, not, hey, everyone, isn t karen bass great? it happens to be the case. no. i bless you, we have been reporting on that i appreciate your point, several states at the state level have done reforms on training, on police video cameras. some, a few, not most. but some on police immunity is so big. let s turn to your bid for
In normal times, capitalism may require that a lot of american workers just have to take it. right now, these market shifts are helping some of them take back power, even challenge reagan era orthodoxys that lasted a long time claiming labors and unions are not vital to the middle class. liberal leaning big labor unions, hard competition in the work force can negativelyible pact our economy. amazon workers, this is outrageous, some amazon workers plan a prime day strike. it will curb the practice we have in this country giving union bosses an unfair advantage in contracting. i am joined by presidential historian michael beschloss. wonderful to see you on this friday. wonderful to see you, ari. history moves on many