Heather Cox Richardson

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448 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · Heather Cox Richardson on America’s Vibe Shift · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

What makes, where are the pressure points that change society? matched

And if you look at somebody like Lincoln or FDR or whomever, and you watch what they said and how they conveyed to people what the problems in their society were, and crucially, when they did it, you can't come out too far in advance of the vast majority of people. matched

You can get them there, but only in small increments. matched

what the radical right calls the Overton window, right? matched

If you watch them and you watch them as they are doing it, the people who managed to wrap all that together are becoming really good speakers. matched

And as they do that, you watch people gravitate toward them. matched

And that's exactly how it should be. matched

That's the way a democracy should work. matched

And I actually find it very exciting to watch the new voices coming up. matched

We're in a profoundly important moment in American history. matched

And everything appears to be proceeding as it does in a moment like that. matched

Is it moving in a direction to get us out of this moment? matched

Well, Nicole, I'm going to go back there to what I started with. matched

If you believe that humans really are wired, if you will, to want to achieve human self-determination, then sure. matched

Right. matched

I mean, we got a lot of things going on. matched

We got the fact that with modern medicine and modern transportation, the people who are in Congress, many of them were born before the Declaration of Independence. matched

I'm sorry, I'm being flippant, but come on, you know? matched

We got a lot of mechanics of our democracy that don't work anymore because they were frozen in a different time. matched

I mean, there's a lot of things we will have to overcome. matched

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