'Shamelessness is a Now a Virtue' with Charlotte Alter

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

The Recount

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Elise Stefanik, a moderate Republican who zealously supports former President Trump and his lies about the election, has replaced hardcore conservative Liz Cheney as the G.O.P. Conference Chair.

Amanda and Faiz talk to Charlotte Alter, a senior correspondent for TIME and author of "The Ones We've Been Waiting For." Charlotte profiled Stefanik in her book, and since then she has reported on the Congresswoman's transformation from Trump-skeptic to Trump-enabler. The trio discuss Stefanik, and what her rise says about the current G.O.P, Cheney's next steps, and "cancel culture."

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0:00.0	I'm FashionCure.
0:06.2	I'm Amanda Littman.
0:08.4	And this is Balagrown, the podcast from the recount and I heart radio.
0:18.4	This week we are talking to Charlotte Alter, a senior correspondent at Time and the author
0:22.7	of a fantastic book about millennials and politics called The ones we've been waiting for.
0:27.3	Just came out again in paperback, highly recommended.
0:30.9	Yeah, we talked to Charlotte about Elise Daphonic, the new house conference chair of the Republican
0:37.6	party.
0:38.6	She recently replaced Liz Cheney in that role.
0:41.9	And we talk about both Elise and Liz Cheney and a little bit about this quote-unquote
0:47.6	cancel culture that the Republicans are so fond of discussing and how they've actually
0:51.3	embraced it within their own ranks, apparently.
0:53.4	But we're going to take a few minutes to talk about this week in politics before the interview
0:57.2	with Charlotte.
0:58.3	But first, I want to make sure that our listeners know that we are here.
1:02.2	You can call us, you can email us with questions, topics you want to cover, people you want us
1:06.7	to talk to, anything on your mind.
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1:14.2	us doing.
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1:21.6	But don't let that stop you, you can leave us a voicemail at 929-399-6748.
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