Duss: I would like a rules-based order, but for real. For real, by which I mean: that was not what we saw from Joe Biden. For Joe Biden—and this is… this is a place where Joe Biden was actually very representative of the way that I think the D.C. foreign policy establishment thinks about the […]
Read MoreSo there’s an example of, yes, we are quite inefficient as a country in terms of how ordinary folks file their taxes. But the reason for that inefficiency is it’s corporations who figured out that those inefficiencies keep costs high for consumers and keep profits even higher for the corporations. So my pitch here: If […]
Read MoreMasket: Yeah, I think a fair number of Democratic candidates have tried to learn from Mamdani. Not necessarily that they want to adopt his policies, but, like, they saw that he was a very effective campaigner, for one thing. They and also found, I think, very effective ways to talk about affordability, to make it […]
Read MoreBacon: Congress, had they been consulted, should have said no because, and I’m guessing this, these things are tied and that this is so radical and so crazy. If Congress had been asked, it never would’ve happened, right? Greenberg: One would certainly hope—yes, one would hope, right? If you think about the congressional history here, […]
Read MoreYou couple that with previous attempts in the first Trump administration by then–National Security Advisor John Bolton, who’s pretty much never met a regime change operation he didn’t like. There had been some efforts in this area, some covert; I don’t even think we know the whole story yet. So there had been plans. And […]
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Stancil: Or what happened in August 2021? Bacon: The U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan and the media covered it—the bad withdrawal—like it was the end of time. So that’s what actually happened. If you look at Joe Biden’s approval rating, this tracks with Kabul. But Brian, I don’t want to dismiss the idea that high inflation […]
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Is this pervasive sense that we have to win the white guys so deep that the party is informally signaling: if you’re not white-guy-friendly—or really, if you’re not a white guy, [don’t run] in some ways? Segers: I do think there may be that underlying message. I also think that, for their part, women politicians […]
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Hunley: Well, so for one, we really want to keep like communities together, and the maps that we passed here in Indiana during our last redistricting, which we do once every 10 years, the maps that we passed last time actually got an A for keeping compact communities together. So you want whole cities together, […]
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McMorrow: Yeah, I think that’s a great point. Because you can’t just be talking in buzzwords. You have to make it real. I was at a UA training facility—union hall training facility—talking to apprentices. This is something that I’ve been doing: going all across the state, not just to meet with union leadership. I’m saying, […]
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Bacon: Right. They don’t care about high prices. They care about helping their elite friends. Donegan: For you means he’s going to lower your grocery bill—he’s not going to do this supposedly silly trans stuff, and he’s going to focus on what really matters. You could actually read that ad, bigoted as it was—and I […]
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Now why wouldn’t you say it was blue? Well, because you’re worried about what some folks who are dead set about shifting our politics to make us all believe that the sky is brown, right? Or some other color. You are worried about what they’re going to say about you. And what that tells me […]
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And then the third thing is this, Perry. I think people, when they’re looking to make a decision about who to vote for, they’re asking, Who is this person? And if I were to ask you what color the sky is, I should hope you just say it’s blue, right? I should hope you wouldn’t be like, Well, […]
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Crenshaw: Change the people; change what money can do. I think that is — that’s all behind what campaign finance reform was all about. We’re inheriting a world that was created by the intersections of the attack on voting rights and the attack on campaign finance reform, right? This is the world bequeathed to us […]
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Seamster: Yeah. I don’t want to spin… Bacon: Not defending it, I’m not praising it. Seamster: But it is a common tactic, as you said, among authoritarian governments. Because if the whole—if your world relies on the production of propaganda—then having an educated population, specifically, who can analyze and identify propaganda as such, that is […]
Read MoreThat’s actually what we see very consistently with anti-corruption movements that are challenging authoritarians worldwide. Part of the reason they succeed is because they sort of move away from the traditional, like, here’s, like, you know, left–right politics in America, and say, no, we’re actually gonna open up a new front. And we’re gonna—and it’s […]
Read MoreSo Zohran won 75 percent among those 18 to 29; he won 65 percent among those 30 to 44. Among those with no college degree, he won 42 percent compared to Cuomo’s f47—so about a tie. Among those whose income was below $30,000, Zohran won 47, Cuomo 44—so about a tie. Among renters, which is […]
Read MoreRepresentative Khanna: Well, look, I think we clarified for folks, that the Affordable Care Act is important and what, and the Republicans have no interest in, in, in lowering their costs and that their premiums are gonna go up because of the Republican callousness. We’ve clarified that the insurance process is broken. This is the […]
Read MoreBacon: Oh, good. Sorry. Potts: Yeah, just to jump in real quick and say that it wasn’t even just their base—like, there were a fair number of independents ready to blame Trump for everything that was going on, which could have really, like, fueled the fire for support for Democrats in 2026. And so I […]
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Right. And so if we’re in this united front and there’s different factions and there’s somebody on fire, and one of the factions, you give them the rock. And if the main objective is to defeat fascism, and I didn’t see that type of play with many of these folks. And to me, I think […]
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If only—it looks like Sliwa’s number dropped a lot, and it was like a two-man race. It appears Zohran’s gonna be about 50 and Cuomo around 42. So what do you make of—so the polling was mostly like 45, 35, 15. So what do you make of the results? Shephard: I think that there was […]
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Gaspard: Yeah, it actually turns out, Perry, that it’s important to speak English. Yes. That does matter to working-day folks. So there’s a—there was a plainness to the approach. He centered a number of really simple things that people feel in their lives, that were proximate to their pain points, and that they could say, […]
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But what I believe more is that the Democratic Party cannot just be the anti-Trump party. We have tried that, and look where we are. And if we aren’t challenging the status quo aggressively, if we aren’t proposing better ideas for how to make sure that people in this country can see a way for […]
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All the variability is gonna go into this to some degree—like how well you can actually, take advantage of these conditions that we tend to see, and, you know, how unpopular Trump actually is and whatnot. But Trump isn’t popular in Virginia. That’s continued to be the case. And so I think that was gonna […]
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And, we can’t ignore the fact that cities like Chicago, like Oregon, like L.A., are living in day-to-day fear from its own government. We need to talk about what’s happening in Chicago, and how it’s interconnected with this government shutdown. They’re not separate issues, they’re all interconnected. But here’s the problem. I think sometimes we […]
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