Heather Cox Richardson

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

We actually get that during the progressive era because candy sellers that you didn't know would paint their candy with lead paint. matched

And so you didn't take candy from a stranger because you needed to know that the pretty decorations were not lead paint on the candy suckers. matched

Oh, that's fascinating. matched

I didn't know that. matched

That's amazing. matched

So this need of ordinary Americans to protect their families in ways that the federal government did until Trump 2.0, matched

I think is creating a different kind of politics where, again, people are saying, perhaps I don't care whether or not the administration is doing something untoward in Venezuela, as it is. matched

But I do care about the fact that I don't have health care anymore, that I can't buy gasoline to get my kid to a soccer game, that I can't buy food. matched

That I don't know how I'm going to pay my rent. matched

You know, those sorts of things are a different kind of politics. matched

And as I say, I think presents a problem for Democrats because certainly at the state level, Democratic legislatures and Democratic leaders want to protect the people within them from the cuts to SNAP, from the cuts to Medicaid and so on. matched

But the more they protect people from that... matched

the more people can say, yeah, it was just fear-mongering. matched

They weren't really going to do it. matched

See, my snap has come back, even though that's not going to happen. matched

So I think we're in that moment where we're trying to figure out what the politics of the next era looks like. matched

And part of it's going to come from ordinary people at home going, hey, wait a minute. matched

I used to be able to trust the food that was in the grocery store, and I can't anymore. matched

Here's one for you, though. matched

One of the things that really jumps out to me, and I don't entirely know how to think about it, is the degree to which the Trump administration has absolutely destroyed the credibility of the American government. matched

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