Heather Cox Richardson

Where are we right now?

Mothers are dying in childbirth.

Because, well, because I used to be, I mean, used to be, I am a college professor and it really takes, think about, you went to school, think about freshman year.

Like a lot of people are spending at least half that freshman year getting used to dealing with people they don't like or figuring out whether they like to drink or whatever.

And they're really not hitting their stride until like March of their first year or

So you want to let them screw around for a year and figure out who they are.

And then you want them to have a year where they can get their feet under them.

Same.

Is there anything else you would add to our list?

Probably, but I want to point out something.

That list that we just wrote,

looks extraordinarily like the list that Theodore Roosevelt put together in the early 20th century to protect American democracy.

So this, you know, one of the things that gets me about the moment we're in is people who have been sort of sidetracked by our construction of American politics since the 1980s look at a list like that and says, oh, it's far left.

This is...

So far from being far left, it was actually proposed by a Republican more than 100 years ago on the grounds that not of individual rights, which he was less into than people are today, but on the grounds that to preserve American democracy, you must have these things.

Oh, that's a good question, because what kind of a document is it?

It's not really a Declaration of Independence.

Manifesto.

Oh, I like Manifesto, too.

Can we do Manifesto?