Welcome to this throwback edition of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, where we remember the past and choose to repeat it.

Today's episode is a remix of multiple past episodes, but was inspired by one in particular from just back in July of this year when we were making a point of demonstrating what a sham the idea

of conservative economic populism is. Well, now that Trump has been re-elected, seemingly

because regular folks were hoping he'd fix the economy for them, we thought we'd take this

moment to highlight the difference between right-wing and left-wing economic populism.

Sources today include The Laura Flanders show, Democracy Now, Pitchfork Economics, Parallax

views, the Real News Network, The Next System Project, economic update, the Majority Report,

Euro News, the Brian Lehrer show, and the PBS News Hour.

In terms of understanding why people voted for Trump, what were their motivations,

it's really important for us to be careful not to just dismiss all Trump voters as bigots, misogynists, white nationalists. It's more complicated than that. There were a substantial number of people who were clearly motivated by Trump's bigotry. And there were others, maybe a very substantial number,

who voted for him despite those things, not particularly because of death. And we need to be mindful of

that and think about how we actually compete for those people. We must compete for those people.

Again, this was an opportunity for many to vote for change in our honestly

rigged political and economic system, and it wasn't on offer anywhere else. And so the first thing

is to lead with compassion. No one, even the folks who voted for Trump, no one deserves what's

coming. And so thinking, looking forward,

we have to figure out what are the things

that progressives can bring

that can draw folks away

from the Trump coalition

and can reveal the contradictions,

right, of what Trump promises, because Trump sort of promises

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