Cornerstone Speech
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Cornerstone Speech has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Pod Save America. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Ben RhodesFormer Obama speechwriter and deputy national security adviser, Crooked Media co-host and author of "All We Say"
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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- Pod Save America · 1 episode
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What Does it Mean to Be an American?Pod Save America · May 31, 2026 · 1 h 20 min
Jon Favreau talks with Ben Rhodes about his book "All We Say," tracing the 250-year argument over American identity through fifteen consequential speeches.
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