Welcome back to Beyond the Polls. This week I explore the divides within the Democratic Party with the new republics Michael Tamasky. Let's dive in.

Well, we've been hearing a lot about the intra-maga disputes because of Donald Trump's reversals of some online influencers preferences, which is, of course, put the usual media fixation with Democratic inter-party disputes a little bit on backburner, but it's never far from our minds here at Beyond the Polls and here to talk with us about Democrats, wither Democrats, wither progressives,

is Michael Tamasky, editor of the New Republic and of Democracy, a Journal of Ideas.

Michael, welcome to be on the polls.

Thanks, Henry.

Great to be here.

Well, TNR has a wonderful, notable history.

I don't want to compare it to the conservative publication that shares some of,

if not all, of your acronym. But tell us a little bit for people who are unfamiliar with

the New Republic, how it came to be and the influence it's had over, gosh, over a century

now.

Yeah, the New Republic was started in 1914.

Herbert Crowley was the name of one man who was a seminal influence.

Walter Lipman was involved.

And there was an organizational meeting in the living room of a man named Theodore Roosevelt

to help get it off the ground.

And this was, of course, the heart of the progressive era, an era of reform and labor

laws and things of that sort.

And the magazine was associated with those things.

It was based in New York City at first. Then a couple iterations

later, it moved to Washington right after the war. And it was... First World War?

Second World War. I'm sorry, the second war. And then, and so it was a Washington liberal

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