Heather Cox Richardson: The GOP No Longer Exists and It Looks Like the 1850s
Historian Heather Cox Richardson joins Scott Galloway eight days before the midterms to argue the GOP has become a MAGA movement and that today's politics resemble the 1850s, when parties broke apart and re-formed.
The gist
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Richardson says today mirrors the 1850s party collapse, as Republicans abandon MAGA and new coalitions form around fresh issues like data centers and AI.
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Galloway cites net worth up 37% for people 75 and older since 2022 and down 23% for under-25s; Richardson frames it as few versus many.
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Richardson says Democrats should start with popular bills like the child tax credit and ACA subsidies, citing the post-Watergate burst of laws.
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Both back a new era of trust busting; Galloway says each company from the AT&T breakup was worth more than the original within 11 years.
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Galloway calls Musk a traitor; Richardson compares him to Benedict Arnold, expects Vance to consolidate power, and wants algorithms that boost bots and disinformation regulated.
Also mentioned
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The New Yorker
· "One of my favorite cartoons ever is that one from The New Yorker of all the rich people in their incredibly..."
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Substack
· "About halfway through my question, I realized that social media and new technologies and Substack have..."
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
· "Like Doris Kearns Goodwin, fantastic historian. And there's been amazing history."
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Paul Krugman
· "I think the best example of that is Paul Krugman, who, you know, he was fine at the Times, but boy, now..."
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