Ep. 48 - Democratic Primary Elections 2020

BrownTown finally dives head first into the 2020 Democratic
Presidential Primary election season. With a 24/7 news cycle,
social media frenzy, infighting within established parties, and
liberatory movements and rhetoric being reflected in mainstream
discourse, how do we makes sense of a flawed state process while
fighting for a new world? Originally recorded March 2,
2020...the day before Super Tuesday.


The fellas discuss the current state of the presidential race
with the (at the time) remaining candidates as well as the
original historically large field. As Caullen and David get news
of Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropping out of the race and
MSNBC host Chris Matthews abruptly resigning right before
recording, they try to make sense of what this means on a larger
scale within the politics of politics. As BrownTown tries
to keep the conversation macro as new votes and global
emergencies have changed certain realities since recording, they
analyze gendered coverage of candidates, the fallacy of
electability and the "safe" candidate, the contextual meaning (or
lack there of) "progressive," representation versus liberation,
and irksome corporate news punditry.


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EPISODE CORRECTION: Now Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was
the Secretary of State, therefore in charge of elections, during
the 2018 Midterm Elections, where he defeated Stacey Abrams,
which many argue was due in part to voter
suppression.


CREDITS: Audio engineered by Genta Tamashiro.
Episode art and Bourbon 'n BrownTown logo by Desirae Gladden.


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