Is This Democracy

5. What Does “Democracy” Even Mean, And Why Conservatives Don’t Want to Be Conservatives Anymore (Oh, and the meeting of white supremacists at Mar-a-Lago)

Dec 2, 2022

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America Is Not an Old Consolidated Democracies Don't Fall.

02:03

Republicans are a project of preserving traditional hierarchies

01:25

Is Mar-a-Lago Really a Troll?

02:28

Conservatism as a Political Project

02:17

Introduction

2min

Trump's Dinner With Anti-Semitism

4min

Trump Is a White Supremacist, and He Won't Denounce Him After the Fact

5min

Is It Too Late to Support Trump?

2min

Is Mar-a-Lago Really a Troll?

2min

Democracy - Part 1 of 3

5min

Is Multiracial the Opposite of Pluralistic?

3min

What's the Ideal of a Democracy?

5min

Is Liz Cheney a Champion of Multi-Racial Pluralistic Democracy?

4min

10.

The American Right Reclaims the Mental of Constitutional Patriotism, Right?

3min

11.

Is It the Opposite of Egalitarian Multiracial Pluralistic Democracy?

6min

12.

Reactionary Counter Mobilization

3min

13.

The Relative Status Difference Is Smaller, Right?

5min

14.

Conservatism

4min

15.

What the Right Is Doing Is Not Conservatism

2min

16.

Is There a Political Conflict Between Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi?

4min

17.

Conservatism as a Political Project

2min

18.

Is Trumpism Not Conservative?

5min

Trump hosted a leading Holocaust denier and white power activist for dinner: What to take away from this latest reminder of who Trump is and what the Republican base wants, and why we must not be lulled into a false sense of security by the ridiculousness of it all – And we dive deep into the question of how to best capture and describe the defining political conflict: Why we are experiencing a counter-mobilization, rather than a backlash; by reactionaries, rather than conservatives; against egalitarian multiracial, pluralistic democracy, rather than simply democracy.

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