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Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

317: How Democrats Lost America with Josh Dawsey

Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt

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News Commentary, Politics, Government, News, National

4.73.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

VOTE FOR THE WORST OF THE TRUMP ADMIN
James and Al exciorate the Republican controlled government for passing Trump’s insane budget, tear into the lackeys supporting the regime, and call upon you to vote in the attached survey to decide who is truly the worst of the worst in the Trump era.  Then, they welcome Josh Dawsey from the WSJ and author of “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America” for a deep dive into the inner machinations of a Democratic party that seemed to be willing to keep Biden in power at all costs.  What will it take to protect the party from its worst impulses as it picks a candidate going into 2028?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to politics world room with James Carville and I'm Al Hunt.

0:14.4

This week, our guest is the political investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal,

0:19.2

Josh Dawsey, and one of the authors of a really

0:21.9

terrific new book, 2024. What happened, how the Republicans won, and the Democrats lost the

0:27.9

country. Remember, we love taking your questions, so write to Politics World Room at gmail.com

0:33.4

for next week's show, and now we're going to get to as many as we can, but don't forget to tell us where you're from.

0:39.4

More importantly, we want you to vote on the worst of the worst from the Trump administration.

0:44.6

We have a voting page ready to log your opinion in the show notes for this episode.

0:50.0

We hope to announce the results next week, so there's a lot of tension.

0:54.6

This is a week before the election, so make sure you vote early and often, if you wish.

1:00.2

You can also get text updates about what's next for Politicon and Politics Warroom by shining up at pliticon.com.

1:07.1

So tell your friends about us and remind them to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.

1:16.3

And please check out the links to our sponsors, Beam, Zbiotics, and Royo in our show notes.

1:23.0

We thank you for supporting these sponsors because it helps make this podcast happen.

1:28.5

James, it may seem like old news, but every day there is a reminder of how awful this big,

1:36.4

ugly bill the Republicans enacted this month, worse than we even thought, and we talked about

1:41.7

it last week.

1:42.9

Everyone out there, you owe it to yourselves to read Larry Summers' essay in the New York Times

1:48.5

this week titled, quote, this law made me ashamed of my country, end quote.

1:54.4

The former Treasury Secretary and a brilliant economist is hardly a radical.

1:59.4

He's often criticized, as a matter of fact, by the left wing.

2:02.6

But after talking to his daughters who are in medicine and social work, he asked, what should

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