Crashing the Party

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Twenty years ago, the Democratic Party seemed poised to dominate American politics. But having alienated many of their traditional working class voters, that dominance didn’t come to pass—and the party could be on the precipice of a political disaster. To understand how we got here, Jonah invites Ruy Teixeira—senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Liberal Patriot on Substack—back on The Remnant for some white hot wonkery on the shifting demographics of America’s major parties. In his new book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone? Ruy explores the Democratic Party’s evolution and what it should do to get back on track. Why did the working class turn on the Democrats in the first place? What will it take for the party to embrace a more moderate policy platform? And why is everyone so determined to make the perfect the enemy of the good? Show Notes: -Ruy’s page at AEI -Ruy’s Substack, The Liberal Patriot -Ruy’s new book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone? -Ruy’s earlier book, The Emerging Democratic Majority -Ruy: “A Three Point Plan to Fix the Democrats and Their Coalition” -Jonah’s first AMA on The Skiff, The Dispatch’s members-only podcast feed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	can I please have your attention.
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0:49.0	Can you digger? Go diggers! The Geegga! Greetings your listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcasts, brought to you by the Dispatch
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1:04.8	I'm very excited, but I am legitimately excited about today's guest.
1:09.4	I've actually been reading his book because I've been waiting for a very long time for it. And I think it's a really important book that dovetails with a lot of the things we've been talking to people on here about for a very long time. And I'm talking about none other than my colleague at the
1:25.2	American Enterprise Institute Roy Deshera. He's a political demographer and
1:29.7	commentator and a senior fellow at AI. He co-wets the web log and the Subsact
1:35.2	newsletter the Liberal Patriot which is great and I highly recommend people
1:38.7	subscribe to it after they subscribe to the dispatch and he has got a new book with his co-author, John Judas.
1:46.0	Where have all the Democrats gone?
1:48.8	The soul of the party in the age of extremes.
1:53.0	Roy, welcome back to the remnant.
1:55.0	Hey, thanks for having me, Jonah.
1:56.0	Delighted to be on and talking about the book and all that jazz.
1:59.0	So, first rule of book authors on this podcast,
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