Andrew J. Taylor: "Blue-Collar Voters Don't Want Blue-Collar Politicians"
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We talk with North Carolina State political scientist Andrew J. Taylor about his new book, A Tolerance for Inequality: American Public Opinion and Economic Policy, probing why voters often prefer public goods and tax cuts over classic redistribution—and how policy frequently tracks aggregate opinion more than pundits admit. Taylor also explores why blue-collar districts don't reliably elect blue-collar representatives and what that says about representation. Plus: the Spiel on the James Comey indictment—why prosecutors previously declined the case, how the McCabe leak finding undercuts the charge, and why this looks like executive retribution rather than justice.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 26, 2025 from Peachfish Productions. |
| 0:07.8 | It's the Gist. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Mike Peska. |
| 0:09.6 | James Comey indicted, very, very big deal. |
| 0:12.7 | Leading this show, leads the spiel, is the spiel. |
| 0:16.8 | It's leading the gist list. |
| 0:18.1 | That is how important it is. |
| 0:19.8 | When you lead the gist list, you know that Mikepaska. That substack. That is how important it is. When you lead the just list, you know that Mikepascot.com is paying a lot of attention to it. |
| 0:25.5 | So in the spiel, I will talk about why this is so bad, but we know that it is bad. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm just running into the fact that all the unique words that we used to use have been burned out |
| 0:35.5 | in those particular vocabulary sensors in our brains. |
| 0:38.3 | So what's available? |
| 0:39.8 | It's unprecedented. |
| 0:40.8 | No, that's not ringing the bell anymore. |
| 0:42.8 | It's unpresidential right next door. |
| 0:44.8 | Still not working. |
| 0:45.8 | Authoritarianism? |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.3 | Literally, it's hard for my brain to even hear the sound. |
| 0:52.3 | Authoritarianism. |
| 0:53.3 | How about norm shattering? No, my norm shattering hear the sound. Authoritarianism. How about norm shattering? |
| 0:57.5 | No, my norm shattering center is shattered. |
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