Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is an election year. Will Donald Trump be

re-elected? What is going on with the Democrats? And has America gone even more crazy? We'll be

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you will get 5% off. Please do so. I'm joined today by Jacob Harbrun, who is editor of the national interest and a columnist for

Spectator USA. And we're going to be talking about the Iowa caucuses, which we finally have a result,

sort of, and about Trump's very good week. Jacob, let's start off on the Democrats.

It seems like Pete Buttigieg has won,

a squeaked victory in Iowa,

which is a remarkable achievement, is it not,

for a mayor from a little place called South Bend in Indiana?

It definitely is, and it's, to reminiscent of Jimmy Carter in 1976 when he was the

anti-establishment candidate and came out of nowhere, the peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia,

who captured the Democratic nomination and then went on to

win the presidency itself, toppling Gerald Ford, who was sort of a caretaker president.

It would be very different for Buttigieg to go up against Donald Trump.

But there clearly is an impulse, also among older voters,

to usher in generational change in American politics

and not simply go to another baby boomer.

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