#1668 We Are Going Back: Team post-election analysis
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 11/8/2024
The Best of the Left team holds a special post-election discussion available to all listeners to present the initial takes on the election as well as our own reactions and suggestions for how to move forward.
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A few worthwhile reads that gave inspiration for some of our discussion:
Democrats Blow Their Chance to Block Trump's Resurgence - The Intercept (Discussing the Genocide in Gaza)
Harris and the Democrats Committed to a Rightward Lurch — and Lost Big Time - Truthout (Courting moderate Republicans)
Donald Trump's Second Term Is Joe Biden's Real Legacy - The New Yorker
I'm a Gen Z man. Here's why so many of my peers supported Donald Trump - Fast Company (Revenge of the Bros)
This Time We Have to Hold the Democratic Party Elite Responsible for This Catastrophe - The Nation
10 Ways We Can Prepare for Another Trump Presidency - Truthout
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everyone. Thanks for listening and supporting the show. |
| 0:06.4 | If you are, I think we're going to put this out as a regular episode for the whole audience, so not just members. |
| 0:12.1 | But thanks to the members for supporting and thanks to everyone else for listening. |
| 0:16.5 | As is often the case with these bonus episodes, the entire crew is with me. |
| 0:22.2 | That's Amanda, Dion, and Aaron. |
| 0:25.1 | This is where I ask you to offer a greeting or in this special circumstance, like a primal scream or whatever you're feeling. |
| 0:33.3 | I don't want to blow up my mic, so hey there. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello. |
| 0:42.2 | Fair. |
| 0:43.3 | Fair. |
| 0:44.3 | So, yeah, we thought that we didn't know what else to do other than a post-election |
| 0:51.8 | team analysis sort of episode. |
| 0:55.7 | So that's what we're doing. |
| 0:57.6 | We've read, or at least, I mean, I read, I don't know, 90 hot takes or so on the |
| 1:04.6 | elections. |
| 1:05.3 | So I sort of got the broad strokes. |
| 1:08.0 | I think the official analysis kind of breaks down like this. Men are bad. |
| 1:13.6 | White women are bad. We should blame Biden for being old and not realizing it. We should blame |
| 1:19.6 | Harris for not breaking from Biden in a variety of ways. Inflation is bad. Like people really don't like it and they don't understand how it works, but they know that |
| 1:32.2 | they don't like it. |
| 1:34.0 | Gaza genocide turns out bad. |
| 1:37.2 | Shouldn't support people who are committing genocide. |
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