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Heather Cox Richardson on Trump's Impact on Democracy

Heather Cox Richardson on Trump's Impact on Democracy

It’s hard to keep up with how Trump 2.0 is impacting our country. We talk to political historian Heather Cox Richardson , author of popular newsletter “Letters from an American,” to make sense of recent actions.

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January 26, 202654m 46s

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Calling out ICE and the National Guard to police Los Angeles, Portland and Minneapolis. DOGE and the evisceration of government institutions. Invading Venezuela. The insults, the rambling, the grift. The Epstein files. It’s hard to keep up with how Trump 2.0 is impacting our country. But in her popular newsletter,  “Letters from an American” political historian Heather Cox Richardson helps readers keep their eyes on what matters. 

Guests:

Heather Cox Richardson, author of "Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America", Richardson is professor of political history at Boston College. Her previous books include "How the South Won the Civil War." Her newsletter, “Letters from an American” reaches over 5 million readers on Substack and Facebook. 

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