#297 - Democratic Losership Council

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In 1985, a group of plucky renegades banded together to take on the political culture in the Democratic Party - demolishing Jesse Jackson's "Rainbow Coalition" to create a coalition that could win elections. That's the thesis of CRASHING THE PARTY (2016), a hagiographic documentary that chronicles the rise of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council and its star candidate, Bill Clinton. We discuss how funny it is that the documentary came out in mid-2016, just when it appeared that the Clintonite project was almost complete. "In Anthony Banua-Simon’s Cane Fire, Hawaiians Are No Longer the Extras" by Alex Press - https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/anthony-banua-simons-cane-fire-hawaii-documentary "Atari Democrats" by Lily Geismer - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/geismer-democratic-party-atari-tech-silicon-valley-mondale "The Obamanauts" by Corey Robin - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-obamanauts

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0:00.0	I like your Bruce Lee shirt there, Will. Was that a Christmas acquisition?
0:17.3	Thank you very much. No, I actually got it when I was shopping at Old Navy about
0:22.1	four or five months ago. I just saw it there, $14 or whatever, and I thought, you know what,
0:28.8	I would like to have the Dragon's energy coursing through my veins. Well, I haven't been into an old
0:34.0	Navy in quite a while, but I guess you can get cheap pants there. I don't
0:38.0	know if you've heard. But there's something kind of warmly nostalgic for me about the fact that
0:43.3	you can still go into places like Old Navy or when I was a teenager, it was blue notes and, uh,
0:48.5	get these kind of novelty t-shirts. When, when I was a teenager, my favorite type of t-shirt was a
0:53.9	novelty t-shirt from like a band or a
0:56.3	movie or something, but I didn't recognize them as novelty t-shirts. I just thought they were really
1:00.6	cool. Whereas, of course, you're wearing the Bruce Lee shirt, not ironically, but in a way that's self-aware.
1:06.7	Yeah, I mean, it's like, I know that it's sort of ridiculous to be wearing this shirt, but at the same time, I don't care.
1:12.1	I genuinely like it.
1:13.8	And, of course, if you wear a Bruce Lee T-shirt, you're also able to fight like Bruce Lee.
1:17.6	You gain his power.
1:18.5	That's true.
1:19.0	That's what they told us on the schoolyard.
1:20.8	And then you die under mysterious circumstances, too.
1:24.0	No, no, no.
1:24.6	Bruce Lee's not really dead. It's, uh, yeah, it's in a book. He was actually
1:28.4	undercover working for the Hong Kong police. Right, right. Of course, uh, if you want to bust the triads,
1:33.4	it's some the world's most famous Chinese film star. Well, welcome back to Michael and us,
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