Episode 38
38: How We Got Here. Norm Ornstein on the Erosion of Norms from Gingrich to McConnell to Trump
The Al Franken Podcast · Audioboom
January 26, 202052m 19s
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About this episode
Veteran Washington observer Norm Ornstein tracks the erosion of norms that once allowed Washington to work. From Newt Gingrich instructing Republicans to demonize Democrats as “sick, corrupt, traitors” to Mitch McConnell denying Merrick Garland a hearing. The abandonment of fact-based evidence, shutting down the government, using the filibuster to grind the Senate to a halt, to a pathological President attacking the media as “enemies of the people.”