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US midterms: How Trump failed to destroy democracy
Care about independent and ethical news? Support Media Storm on Patreon!Democrats have won both houses of Congress in a historic blue wave. Does this signal a seismic shift in US politics...dare we say it…the beginning of the end of the Trump era?
Mathilda and Helena are joined by mathematician Christina Pagel, creator of the Trump Action Tracker, to unpack how the Trump administration tried to tilt the vote: $5,000 cheques promised to every adult if Republicans won, a hunt for "voter fraud", and maps redrawn to wipe out majority-minority districts.
Then we follow the money. At nearly $12 billion, this was the most expensive election in US history, and most of it was perfectly legal. Who were the biggest spenders, what can that money buy, and how can the UK learn from the US?
We ask what Britain should lock down now, as crypto-billionaires pour record sums into Reform UK. And we ask: what dangers still lie in the way of democracy being restored in the States?
Read Open Britain’s report with 99% Organisation, Unlock Democracy and more: Defensive Constitutional Reform: Preventing the UK from going the way of the US.
This episode is hosted and produced by Mathilda Mallinson (@mathildamall) and Helena Wadia (@helenawadia)
It was edited by Christy Callaway-Gale
The music is by @soundofsamfire
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