Episode 50: INTERVIEW with Ryan W. Powers – Democrats Aren’t Rising To Meet The Moment

This episode is another opportunity to pull myself – and hopefully all of you - out of the morass that is our weekly news cycle and focus on one topic and one person. I stumbled upon this week’s guest because he wrote a piece in The Guardian that resonated with me. It is called Democrats Are Captive To Outdated Norms. It’s Endangering Democracy, and it got me to thinking about_ how I am represented by my “team,” which is, ostensibly - and because I don’t have a better option - the Democratic Party,” and what we can do to move things in a better direction. A direction of action rather than strongly worded letters to aspiring dictators. So, I reached out to the author of that piece, Ryan W. Powers, and I cajoled him into doing a short interview. Ryan bills himself as a legal analyst and former Big Law attorney who writes a weekly Substack newsletter on democracy, dissent, and the law. He calls it _The Powers Project.