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episode 53: 53 - The Cycles of Constitutional Time with Jack Balkin
"American democracy has weathered these cycles before, and we'll get through them again." - Jack Balkin
Politics: Meet Me in the Middle is back for 2021: a new administration, another impeachment, and the same old politics.
Legal scholar, Yale Law Professor, and author, Jack Balkin, joins Bill Curtis, Jane Albrecht and Professor Ed Larson for a discussion about the constitution, political polarization, impeachment, and The Cycles of Constitutional Time, to explain, and help us weather, this waxing and waning of political polarization.
3:26 Why Jack wrote The Cycles of Constitutional Time
4:19 Jack explains how we got here, politically.
4:53: The shifts between political parties over time.
6:18: What causes a party to die-off
6:52: Republicans are in the middle of a civil war
7:27: Political Polarization’s history
9:09: What is constitutional rot?
10:02: The Rough Framework or Outline of the Constitution
11:50: Checks and Balances
14:30: Political reform and renewal of party
16:04: What is constitutional time and outlining the cycles?
18:16: How are party coalitions the victim of their own success?
19:00- The Great depression
19:20- The impact of the media “Yesterday and Today”
20:30: 1930’s newspaper & radio polarization
22:20: The Gilded Age
23:30: A second progressive era and the insurrection
24:23: The issues of impeachment
25:40: 14th amendment Section 3
27:13: Republicans will not behave
29:45: Believing the election was stolen is political rot
31:00: What did the mob want with the Capitol?
32:00: Lunatic Fringe (radical and lunatics)
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