{"id":16423,"date":"2021-11-02T14:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=16423"},"modified":"2021-11-02T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T18:04:52","slug":"beyond-politics-the-problem-we-never-talk-about-that-might-be-bigger-than-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=16423","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Politics: The Problem We Never Talk About that Might Be Bigger Than Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan\u2014and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump\u2019s &#8220;Big Lie\u201d\u2014our guest today says that it is anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy. Our old friend David Pepper is the former Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Cincinnati, he\u2019s served in city and county offices, run statewide in Ohio, and has a law degree from Yale. But he\u2019s also an accomplished author of works that are eerily prescient about American politics. He&#8217;s written Laboratories of Autocracy, a chilling new account of just how bad things have gotten at the state level, and what we can do to fix it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-problem-we-never-talk-about-that-might-be-bigger\/id1369437819?i=1000540428899\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan\u2014and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump\u2019s &#8220;Big Lie\u201d\u2014our guest today says that it is anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy. Our old friend David Pepper is the former Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":16094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beyondpolitics"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/qtq80-LsKQbD.jpeg?fit=1254%2C836&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16424,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16423\/revisions\/16424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}