This special retrospective episode looks back at the early days of The More Perfect Union podcast from our very first podcast in September of 2015 through the end of 2016, with clips that cover the rise of Trump, chaos in the GOP primary campaign, and the Hillary-Bernie battle for the soul of the Democratic party.
Segments:
Fifth GOP Debate
The Cruz-Rubio immigration face-off
Can Trump really win?
Goodbye Lindsey Graham
Obama and the war on ISIS
Third Democratic Debate
Segments:
The Trump Phenomenon
Clinton, Sanders and Glass-Steagall
State of the Races
The Economic Argument Against Immigration Reform
Segments:
Obama’s Oval Office Address: “Complex acts of terrorism”
The San Bernadino Shooting
The Politics of Guns – Where the Candidates Stand
Trump and the polls: Is he for real?
The pending government shutdown
Segments:
GOP Debate
Democratic Debate
Million Student March
Is this now a foreign policy election?
Segments:
Election Day 2015 and the Kentucky governor’s race
Donald Trump on SNL
Ben Carson’s mendacity issues
George H. W. Bush’s new memoire
MSNBC Democratic Forum
Obama rejects the Keystone XL Pipeline
State of the races
Segments:
Third GOP Debate
Jeb Bush campaign
Ben Carson’s dietary supplement pills
Syria and boots on the ground
School Resource Officers in high school classrooms
The state of the races
Headlines:
Presidential Election Super Pac Donors
John Kasich: I Don’t Want Taylor Swift Tickets
Vilsack and Burwell Testify on Dietary Guidelines
Jeb Bush Would Not Reauthorize Voting Rights Act
Segments:
House Speaker Race
Democratic Debate Preview
Third Quarter Campaign Fundraising Results
Headlines
The Texas prison system influences the world
Illegal immigrants could elect Hillary Clinton
The truth about the Benghazi investigation
Squirrel causes 1,900 power outages
Guns
We all offer imperfect solutions to the current state of guns in America.
