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

But can we do it? matched

You know, we've always done it in the past. matched

American democracy had to adjust to the westward movement of the country in the 19th century. matched

It had to grapple with industrialization. matched

Does somebody like Andrew Carnegie really act as if he is equal to one of his workers in his factory? matched

We had to deal with that. matched

We had to deal with globalization that brought us to the Great Crash and the Great Depression. matched

And that was not an easy thing to come out of and to figure out. matched

And then after the war, we had to deal with the idea of a world that now had nuclear weapons. matched

Now we've got to deal with climate change and with the rise of AI and the internet. matched

I mean, that's a huge, huge change in human history. matched

Are we going to be able to do it? matched

Well, we've always done it in the past, so it looks pretty good from where I sit. matched

We could just as easily fail. matched

You know, democracies are on the ropes right now, and that's what we're working so hard to push back on. matched

But I will tell you... matched

I got to get up in the morning tomorrow and do something. matched

And if my options are to throw my hands up and say, well, yeah, I'm going to let Elon Musk run everybody's lives for eternity, or I'm going to work to defend those laws of nature and nature's God that humans have the right and the self-evident principles behind that, I'm going to get up and be on that side rather than on the former. matched

Because if you believe, as I do, that the way you change... matched

American democracy or American politics is by adhering really closely to those Enlightenment ideals of reasoned argument and a nonpartisan attention to what those details are, the minute that I become a candidate for office, I lose all that. matched

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