Chris Hayes on the New Trump Coalition, and What Democrats Do Next
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The second Trump Administration might dramatically reshape the foundations of the federal government for decades to come. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is reckoning with what could be interpreted as a generational rebuke of its platform and presentation. But is this the beginning of a mass political realignment in the United States? And how will politicians communicate their platforms in a world where the “attention economy” has so radically shifted? Author, political commentator, and MSNBC host Chris Hayes joins guest host Andrew Marantz for an election postmortem and to discuss where the Democrats go from here.
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| 0:00.0 | I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president. |
| 0:11.1 | As the dust begins to settle on the 2024 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump is poised to reshape the structures of American politics in his image, this time |
| 0:21.9 | with far fewer guardrails than the last time he held office. |
| 0:25.7 | He will re-enter the White House with Republicans in control of the Senate and quite possibly |
| 0:29.5 | the House as well. |
| 0:31.5 | Democrats, meanwhile, are reckoning with what you might call a generational rebuke of their |
| 0:35.8 | party, or at least of their party's image. |
| 0:39.1 | So where are we heading? Is authoritarianism at the gates? And where should the Democrats and |
| 0:45.2 | America's left go from here? You're listening to the political scene. I'm Andrew Morantz, |
| 0:51.0 | a staff writer for the New Yorker, and I'm filling in for Tyler Foggett this week. |
| 0:55.3 | Today I'm joined by Chris Hayes. |
| 0:56.9 | He's an author, political commentator, and host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. |
| 1:02.7 | He joins the show to help us make sense of the election and discuss what America may look like for not just the next four years, but potentially for decades to come. |
| 1:17.7 | Thank you, Chris, for doing this. |
| 1:19.1 | Thanks for coming on. |
| 1:19.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:20.9 | We have endless amounts of stuff that I would like to get to. |
| 1:24.7 | And if we could do the sort of micro postmortem a little bit. |
| 1:29.7 | So we know what happened. |
| 1:33.7 | It's kind of funny to imagine someone listening to this podcast not knowing what happened, but we do know what happened. |
| 1:39.8 | The Chris Hayes decision desk. |
| 1:42.3 | We're calling it. |
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