Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast.

Changing the direction of a political party doesn't happen overnight,

and it usually takes a major disrupting event to shake it out of its well-worn groove.

The loss of the Harris campaign to Trump and the evident desperation people have for a new

economics that actually works for people might finally be enough to put Democrats on track

to a more full-throde support of progressive economics.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about

50 minutes today includes the Daily

show, the Majority Report, the Kyle Kalinsky show, the Muckrake podcast, and Pod Save America.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in three sections.

Section A, Why Democrats Lost, Section B, Time to Fight, and Section C moving forward.

There was a method to the Democrats' madness.

Democracy and freedom are on the ballot.

Our democracy is on the line.

We have to protect democracy.

We have to work even harder to make sure that we defend our democracy.

We don't get to choose when we're asked to defend democracy.

We just have to do it.

And this is not a drill.

Noble words.

And I'm glad to say Democrats did protect

democracy just for the other side.

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