Can Democrats do Politics? (with Ruy Teixeira)

The Mona Charen Show

The Bulwark

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Ruy Teixeira joins Beg to Differ to consider abortion, guns, crime, and other issues on which Democrats can't seem to find the sweet spot. Also, is there any chance for a moderate party?

Highlights & Lowlights

Linda: How Unlikely Is It That the Audits of Comey and McCabe Were a Coincidence? A Statistical Exploration. - New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/upshot/comey-mccabe-tax-audits.html)

Damon: Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low - Gallup (https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Beg to
0:07.5	differ, the Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil
0:12.2	conversation across the
0:13.5	political spectrum. We range from center left to center right. I'm
0:18.3	Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bulwark and I am joined by our regulars
0:24.2	Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the
0:29.7	Wall Street Journal and Damon Linker author of Eyes on the Right for Substack.
0:35.8	Our special guest this week is Political Scientist and Democratic Strategist Rui Tushera.
0:42.4	Welcome to One in All.
0:44.0	It is great to have the gang back together this week.
0:49.0	I'm particularly delighted to have Rui with us because you have written a number of really
0:56.0	great things about what the Democratic Party does wrong, what it should do right.
1:00.9	I particularly loved your two pieces called the Fox News fallacy. You had
1:05.9	version one and version two and you can tell us about that because I would like to
1:11.3	take a kind of a broad look today at what ails the Democratic Party in
1:17.0	in 2022.
1:19.0	So if you don't mind, Rui, give us the quick sort of pricey version of your thesis in the Fox News fallacy.
1:28.0	Sure. The basic idea is pretty simple. The Democratic Party, most Democrats have adopted an approach to anything that's said on the right by their conservative bit more of choice and of course Fox News looms large here.
1:46.0	If something is complained about on Fox, then there must be absolutely nothing to it.
1:52.0	And the Democrats' sole and only job then there must be absolutely nothing to it and the democrats
1:53.7	sole and only job is to vigorously denounce
1:58.1	that assertion say there's nothing to it
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