#1494 Progressives and the Primaries
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Air Date 6/8/2022
Today we take a look at progressive victories in primary elections around the country and explain why moderates are not much more than allies of conservatism.
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SHOW NOTES
“What you’ve seen is a surprising backlash at the voter level to all of the money that flooded in,” says investigative journalist David Sirota of The Lever. “It’s been a pretty good night for progressive candidates, despite all that money.”
Ch. 2: Howie Klein of 'Down With Tyranny' on midterm primaries - The Bradcast - Air Date 5-27-22
Howie Klein delivers lively analysis on primary victories (and losses) for progressive Democrats so far in the 2022 midterm election cycle, and a preview of important races coming up in seven states in the Super Tuesday primary on June 7.
Ch. 3: Voting, Primaries and Redistricting in the South Part 1 - The Takeaway - Air Date 5-28-22
We take a look at the latest primary election results from this past week. We’re joined by Maya King, politics reporter for The New York Times, and Stephen Fowler, state and local politics reporter for Georgia Public Radio.
Susan Page, USA Today Washington bureau chief, talks about the latest in national politics, including recent polling on midterm issues and President Biden's statement on Taiwan.
Ch. 5: Voting, Primaries and Redistricting in the South Part 2 - The Takeaway - Air Date 5-28-22
We take a look at the latest primary election results from this past week. We’re joined by Maya King, politics reporter for The New York Times, and Stephen Fowler, state and local politics reporter for Georgia Public Radio.
Ch. 6: How "Moderates" Serve The Right - Second Thought - Air Date 12-17-21
This week we're talking about everyone's favorite grillpilled neighbor - the American "centrist" or "moderate". As much as they like to see themselves as enlightened arbiters of progress, centrists are little more than spoilers for actual progress.
What progressives should be focusing on in the 2022 midterm elections is clear. It's economics. That's what people are worried about the most and that is what they should run on. Whether they focus on that or not is a different story.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Turner says the corporate wing of the Democratic Party seeks to consolidate the existing leadership’s power while shutting down champions of progressive policies like Medicare for All.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 9: Should Justice Sotomayor retire this year? - Woody from Washington DC
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on the extreme measures needed to stabilize our political system
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| 0:16.6 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:23.3 | take a look at progressive victories in primary elections around the country and explain why |
| 0:28.3 | moderates are not much more than allies of conservatism. |
| 0:32.6 | Clips today are from Democracy Now, the Bradcast, the Takeaway, the Bryan Lerror Show, Second |
| 0:39.0 | Thought, and the Majority Report with an additional members only clip from Democracy Now. |
| 0:50.6 | Voters went to the polls in Tuesday's primary elections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Oregon, |
| 0:55.3 | North Carolina, and Idaho. |
| 0:57.6 | In Pennsylvania, State Senator Doug Mustriano won the Republican gubernatorial primary. |
| 1:02.6 | Mustriano is a far-right politician who backed the overturning of the 2020 presidential election |
| 1:08.0 | and funded charter buses to take supporters to Washington on January 6th ahead of the insurrection. |
| 1:14.0 | Meanwhile, Pennsylvania's closely watched Republican Senate primary is too close to call. |
| 1:20.1 | Television Dr. Mema Oz, who is backed by Donald Trump, has a narrow lead over hedge fund |
| 1:26.2 | executive Dave McCormack, though he's expected to make up a lot of the difference with |
| 1:30.9 | mail-in votes. |
| 1:32.4 | The winner will face Democrat John Federman, who defeated Congressmember Connor Lamb, even |
| 1:37.4 | though Lamb was endorsed by much of Pennsylvania's Democratic establishment. |
| 1:41.5 | Federman, whose Pennsylvania's current lieutenant governor, had to miss his victory party Tuesday |
| 1:46.9 | night, he suffered a stroke on Friday and spent primary day in a hospital where he had |
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