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9/23/19:
We “rethink the week” with Jeff Feingold, editor of the NH Business Review, and Dean Spiliotes, Professor and Civic Scholar at Southern NH University. We discuss whether Trump will be held accountable in any way for the huge amount of damage he is causing to America — through corruption, lies, fraud, alienating our allies, recklessly risking war, and refusing to act on the urgent threat of climate change. Republican legislators and voters are in lockstep opposition to impeachment and seem likely to vote for Trump a second time. The Democrats, for their part, are reluctant to initiate impeachment proceedings, perhaps for fear of possible backlash due to Trump’s anticipated attacks/threats/and bullying tactics.
We also discuss the urgent need for action to stop/reverse climate change, as highlighted in this week’s climate strikes (which drew hundreds of thousands of young people and adults worldwide) and the summit at the United Nations. Will independent voters who had supported Trump in 2016 finally recognize that their economic interests are being trampled by Trump’s denial policies?
Finally, we got an update on the latest polling in Iowa and New Hampshire. Elizabeth Warren for the first time has surpassed Joe Biden as well as Bernie Sanders, and now tops the list of Democratic presidential candidates. Can she maintain that (small) lead? Is she vulnerable to new attacks? Will her lack of support among African American voters prove too much of an obstacle for her to win the nomination?
