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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, life and culture.

My name is Freddie Gray. I'm the deputy editor of The Spectator.

I'm delighted to be joined by our Washington editor, Amber Athe, and the managing editor of Spectator World, Matt MacDonald, who are both

in the Washington area. And it's been a pretty significant week in American politics. We had the Virginia

race on Tuesday, which was won by Republican,

and various other races that suggest, or that most people are saying, that suggest that the

progressive wing of the Democratic Party is alienating voters. Is that a fair analysis? Amber,

I'll start with you. Yeah, definitely. So beyond just the Virginia race, which really was focused by the Republican candidate,

Glenn Yonkin, on local issues and then nationalized by Democrat Terry McColliffe,

there were several other indications that progressivism lost on Tuesday.

There was a vote in Minneapolis on the defund the police movement and voters overwhelmingly

supported keeping police in place. And in Seattle, there was a race for city attorney where a former

Democrat actually changed her party affiliation to Republican to counter one of her Democratic

colleagues who similarly was

in support of the defund the police movement. And a Republican ended up winning city attorney in Seattle,

which is pretty unheard of. For people who don't remember, Seattle was where they had the

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