The Best People with Nicolle Wallace S2025E26 - Heather Cox Richardson: "People are Starved for Facts"

As an American historian and history professor at Boston College, Heather Cox Richardson muses, " I don't predict the future, I predict the past." But there is a reason that her renowned "Letters From an American" Substack has the most subscribers of anyone on the platform: Cox Richardson's ability to apply the lessons from our nation's history to the politics of our present. And she sees a significant realignment happening in our democracy right now. In this episode, Heather zeroes in on the growing conflict between the citizenry and an executive branch that shows a bent toward aristocracy over democracy. She also points to progress, as Americans are waking up to the power they hold and finding their agency to say, in her words, "Hell no."