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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: Miss Rankin Votes "Present"
Description: Back in the 1870s Otto von Bismarck coined a term that still resonates today, despite the fact that purists on both political sides hate it: realpolitik
In December of 1941, a Congresswoman – the first ever – learned a lesson in realpolitik. In April of 1917 she had been among fifty US Representatives who felt that a US Declaration of War on Imperial Germany was a mistake and to be opposed. In retrospect and in the minds of many millions of Americans that day, she was right.
But twenty-four years later, she would find herself as the ONLY US Cong...