Live at the National Constitution Center

Intelligent, interesting & important discussion on Constitutional matters. Every US citizen should listen to The Constitution Center podcasts, etc.

Todays episode was by far the worst in memory. This show is usually informative and balanced. Today’s show was nothing but one meme and bumper sticker against Trump after another. No mention was made of the Obama-era scandals of political spying at the FISA courts, the current weaponization of DOJ against the leading presidential candidate (which the panelist promote indirectly), and unmentioned BLM riots, which the left accepted as almost the only exception to Covid restrictions. The young panelists conflate complaining of or alleging fraud with “tyranny”—yet they have selective amnesia about Stacy Abrams alleging the same thing, and how about Hillary saying that Russia put Trump in office, making him “illegitimate” because “he knows he lost.” Today’s show was Sesame Street talks partisan politics. I hope that today’s departure from reality will be an anomaly.

I listened to your FDR/Supreme Court episode. It was fine…if it was a seminar at the Brookings Institution on how to justify packing today’s court and messaging the public against Originalist interpretation. It was unfit for the Constitution Center. We need institutions like you to actually present the best of both sides. Ken (?) is a talented historian who has written about conservatives. He is not a conservative. It was poor judgment to not enrich this conversation with ideological diversity. It rated it a 4 only because I respect the CC. It was a poorly organized panel. Thanks.

If only the 360 discussions found in each topic’s discussion could be required of all media. Imagine a populace engaged in first discriminating thought, and freed from the sensationalistic, click baiting silo they have been assigned; silos where we find ourselves entangled, without even realizing it.