What Ben Rhodes has said about Cornerstone Speech

1 quote · 1 episode · May 31, 2026

Ben Rhodes, Former Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say", has been quoted on Cornerstone Speech once in 1 episode of Pod Save America, most recently on May 31, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Rhodes argued that Stephens presented white supremacy not as a necessary evil but as an enlightened discovery to motivate poor white Southerners.

    “He turns white supremacy into like a progressive enlightenment discovery, philosophical moral truth, as you quoted”

    Pod Save America: What Does it Mean to Be an American? (May 31, 2026) · Listen from 30:55

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