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I'll live with that criticism.

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I'm Grant Reeher and I'm talking with Steven Smith, the Yale University political philosopher is the co-director of the Center for the Study of Representative Institutions and the author of a new book titled On Statesmanship.

And we've been discussing the issues that it raises.

Unless someone lives up at every moment to the highest level of moral possibility, then you are at fault.

And it is this kind of attempt to impose a kind of moral, if not moralistic vision on politics that I mean, I think is at the core of much of, you know, what we call it a cancel culture and woke, woke culture that just is blind to the imperfections and the difficulties of decision making in real time.

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And my guest is Steven Smith of Yale University, the author of On Statesmanship.

... because I wanna, I wanna give you plenty of time to develop it.

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I'm Grant Reeher, and I'm talking with Robert Pape, the University of Chicago political scientist, is the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, and he's the author of a new book titled Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent Populism.

And we've been discussing the issues that he raises in that book.

No, they'll be okay"? Really? I mean, and so that's where this becomes far more combustible, Grant, than we're used to, and that's only one dimension, but it's a major dimension, which is why I devoted a whole chapter to the book on this.

Hmm.

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So how do we get out of this? [laughs]

No side comes away with a perfect win.

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I'm Grant Reeher, and I'm speaking with Kayleigh Buller, the Republican who's running for Congress in New York's 22nd District.

I just want to say I appreciate what you put in at the end, that waste, fraud, and abuse cutting is not going to get us all the way there.

We're talking about people here, right? These are people.

These are humans.

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I'm Grant Reeher, and I'm talking with Kailee Buller.

Earlier this year, the Syracuse Common Council voted to end the city's contract with Flock Safety.

But as Jason Smith, the news director of Central New York public radio station WRVO told me, that didn't mean Syracuse was ending its use of ALPRs.

In fact, the same day that the city council voted to cancel its contract with Flock, they voted to sign a new contract with Axon Enterprises.

The Arizona-based Axon Enterprises was, until recently, perhaps best known as the maker of the taser.