Checks and Balance: Crashing the party
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The centrists of the Democratic Party establishment have only a few days to figure out how to stop Bernie Sanders running away with the nomination. Something similar happened to the Republicans in 2016 when Donald Trump memed his way to the presidency to the horror of party grandees. Mainstream parties in European democracies have also faced challenges from the fringes. Is the era of the party machine over? Or are moderates simply losing the battle of ideas?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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| 0:20.0 | Check the Uber app. |
| 0:26.5 | A quote in the Lawrence Journal world, a daily paper in Kansas sums it up. If he's going to have all those woolly heads around him, he might well forget about the support of our kind of people. |
| 0:32.0 | The year was 1972, the author was anonymous, |
| 0:35.0 | a source in the infamous Chicago Democratic Party machine. The woolly heads were the supporters |
| 0:40.2 | of the anti-war presidential candidate George McGovern. |
| 0:43.0 | Among them a young Hillary Rodham. |
| 0:46.0 | This week Bernie Sanders tweeted, |
| 0:48.0 | I've got news for their Democratic establishment. |
| 0:50.0 | They can't stop us. |
| 0:52.0 | Is it 1972 all over again? With 248 days to go, this is |
| 0:57.2 | checks and balance. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello I'm John Prido, and this is a podcast from The Economist about the 2020 |
| 1:07.1 | elections and the road to power in America. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm the Economist's US editor and from now until election day we'll take one theme each week and explore it in depth. |
| 1:18.0 | Today, is the party machine dying? |
| 1:29.0 | The centrist in the Democratic Party establishment have just a few days to figure out how to stop Bernie Sanders |
| 1:32.0 | from running away with the nomination on |
| 1:33.7 | Super Tuesday. Something similar happened to the Republicans in 2016 when Donald |
| 1:38.4 | Trump maimed his way to the presidency to the horror of party grandees. |
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