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Inside the Hive

Can We UnTrump America?

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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x`Over the past three years, Trump has become a pox on America, both at home and abroad, and changed politics forever. Daniel Pfeiffer, former Senior Advisor to President Obama, joins Nick to explain how we can "UnTrump America," how the Democrats have a slim, but possible, chance of winning in November, why beating Mitch McConnell might be more important than defeating Donald Trump, and how to roll back the disastrous judges that the Republicans have appointed over the past three years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns

0:09.5

Thursday, November 16th.

0:11.6

Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion

0:15.6

podcast. Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton and I couldn't

0:22.3

be more thrilled to have someone on the show who I've been trying to get on the show for a long time who has a new book out.

0:28.4

Dan Fyfer is the number one New York Times best-selling author of yes we still can and has a new

0:33.8

book out called Untrumping America I have so many questions I breached through the

0:38.9

book in about four hours I hate when people say that to me because it means I know you spent

0:43.4

like a year on your book and someone just read it very quickly. But

0:46.6

congratulations, a great book. Thank you. I want to start with something that

0:52.0

stood out to me pretty kind of halfway through the book.

0:57.2

You used to work for people that don't know, he used to work in the Obama White House and you kind of go into some of the details of the things that happened

1:04.9

when you were there.

1:06.2

And there was one thing that stood out to me about how when you look at the Democratic

1:11.6

Party today, how it's kind of continues to lose in some regards and there's lots of different things that are happening with the Republican Party and the shifts it's taking and so on how there was this kind of dichotomy

1:24.3

where you had Obama that was winning and then you had the Democratic Party that

1:28.8

was losing at the same time and I was wondering if you can kind of just set the stage

1:32.1

for us about how we got to where we are today with the Democratic Party

1:37.3

Kind of appearing to be a little bit of a mess

1:39.8

Sure how did I know it's a big large question to begin, but it was the thing that stood out to me.

1:45.8

Yeah, I think the most important moment to understand how we got to where we are right now.

1:52.6

It's not the 2016 election, it's the 2010 election.

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