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Will Bunch: The Jan 6th Committee has been really good at drumming up public interest. I've seen how Repubs have turned politics into a show.
Rick: That's why I think this is all Liz Cheney, using the Repub media playbook.
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Will Bunch: I think Clarence & Ginni Thomas are Exhibit A in other things that can be done in addition to taking down Trump. The hearings are a show but they're a show telling the truth.
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Will Bunch: It's easy to get cynical & think that nothing will bring Trump down but I see these hearings are making headway in peeling people away from Trump.
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Rick: So far it's all be Republicans who are testifying in the hearings.
Will Bunch: Be careful what you wish for--DeSantis could be a smarter, more dangerous person than Trump.
Rick: They still need to be held accountable for breaking the law.
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Will Bunch: The reports out of the Justice Dept worry me. Even before Jan 6th, I knew Jan 6 would be bad b/c of what Trump was doing. On Nov 10, 2020, I wrote a piece, So Is President Trump Staging a Coup, or What?
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Will Bunch: The facts are out there. Public opinion has come around very strongly to the side of doing something, but is it too late? The future of this country depends on showing that Trump is not above the law. I'm nervous how this will play out.
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Will Bunch: I want to be optimistic about the Jan 6 proceedings but with concern.
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Will Bunch: My new book comes out two weeks from tomorrow, on Aug. 2nd. The timing couldn't be better. People have come to realize how bad student loan debt is--$1.75 trillion, more than any other debt, incl credit card debt.
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Will Bunch: More & more people are deciding not to go to college; they're questioning whether it's worth it to get a college degree. College enrollment is dropping. I've been watching the college/non-college divide become the thing in politics.
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Will Bunch: The Trump party increasingly became the party of the white working class. There's growing concern about the idea that we're seeing non-white working class people migrate to the Repub party.
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Will Bunch: We've seen it in south TX & in FL with Hispanic & Asian voters. Trump's misogyny was appealing to men, incl non-white men. In my book, I look at why the Dem party has become the party of college-educated people & the Trump party isn't.
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Will Bunch: Better-educated people are the biggest boosters for equity, for undoing police brutality.
Rick: So that's why Repubs want to destroy education.
Will: Mastriano, if he wins in PA, wants to cut the public contribution to education in half.
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