Jon Favreau

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455 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 11 Oct

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The Ezra Klein Show · Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right · 11 Oct 2025 podcast

Uh had them on Podsave America a couple of months ago now. matched

They have the three and a half percent rule, which is no authoritarian regime has been able to matched

withstand a protest movement, a nonviolent protest movement that is three and a half percent of the population or more. matched

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Martin Luther King's Stride Toward Freedom, which is his book and a firsthand account of the Montgomery bus boycotts. matched

I was reading that again, and I find that just a fascinating study in the strategy and discipline necessary for nonviolent resistance and protests and political movement and social movement building. matched

And then this is not a book that's out yet. matched

It's out next week, but I just read the long essay by the author in the New York Times. matched

Times, John Fabian Witt, The Radical Fund, How a Band of Visionaries and A Million Dollars upended America, about very wealthy philanthropist who decided to donate all of his money to progressive causes back in the 1920s and sort of seeded the ground for a lot of the most progressive policies that we saw, we would end up seeing in the New Deal, which was in when he was doing this. matched

It was also a time in the 1920s where we are seeing a lot of the political and social matched

economic conditions that we are seeing right now. matched

So I find I thought the essay was excellent. matched

I'm excited to read the book. matched

John Favreau, thank you very much. matched

Thanks for having me. matched

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