Can Biden Really Beat Trump?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Are Americans on the left and right simply destined to hate each other forever? Ezra Klein, cofounder of Vox and author of the new book, “Why We’re Polarized,” joins Nick to explain how we became a country so divided, if the current media landscape is causing more harm than social media does, and why Biden pulling ahead in the primary flipped everything upside down this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	A thrilling.
0:30.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. I am very excited to get into a conversation.
0:40.0	Maybe it'll turn into an argument who knows with Ezra Klein, Vox co-founder, host of the Ezra
0:45.4	Klein show podcast and author of the fascinating new book, why we're so polarized.
0:50.4	We're going to try to not be polarized in this conversation Ezra.
0:53.0	Welcome to the show.
0:54.0	I'm trying to be polarized man.
0:56.0	I'm coming in here for the argument, for the polarization.
0:59.0	I'm burning this place down.
1:00.0	All right, well, you will not be the first person to have done that on the show, but I actually,
1:05.4	funnily enough, had dinner last night with someone who was the most staunch Trump
1:09.0	supporter I've ever met in my life, and so I'm a little battered and bruised, but we'll go for it. I want to get to your
1:15.0	book which is fascinating and takes a whole different approach to the
1:19.6	belief of why we're polarized than I have read before. But let's just set the
1:24.7	groundwork. It's Thursday, you know this podcast is going live in a couple of hours and
1:29.0	this week it seems like we were talking about the election and the you know it must have been like
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