#1701 Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Installing the Backbone Democrats Need
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 194 minutes
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Air Date 4/2/2025
Love them or loathe them, the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on Trumpism but we need a whole lot of new energy and new commitments to the fight to turn them into an opposition worthy of the moment we face.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast. Love them or loath them, |
| 0:08.5 | the Democratic Party is the political institution available to the left to structurally take on |
| 0:14.4 | Trumpism, but we need a whole lot of new energy and new commitments to the fight to turn them |
| 0:20.3 | into an opposition worthy of the |
| 0:22.7 | moment we face. |
| 0:24.2 | For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 |
| 0:28.3 | minutes today includes All In with Chris Hayes, Kat Abu Ghazale, The Majority Report, Bean |
| 0:34.5 | Thinking, and J.B. Pritzker via the Human Rights campaign. Then in the additional |
| 0:39.3 | deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in five sections. Section A, failures, |
| 0:44.5 | followed by Section B, Conservatives, Section C, Energy, Section D, Pushback to the Failures, |
| 0:51.0 | and Section E, History. At first, we are in major promotion mode as we launch our new weekly YouTube show |
| 0:57.8 | solved. |
| 0:59.3 | That's all caps, exclamation point. |
| 1:01.5 | We really need every hand on deck we can get. |
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| 1:20.4 | us to. |
| 1:21.4 | So thanks so much to everyone helping us get off the ground during this critical time. |
| 1:25.8 | We're really proud of the show and want as many people as possible to see it. |
| 1:30.4 | Now, as a sneak peek, I'm going to share a special piece of our most recent episode, |
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