Dan Pfeiffer: Mystery Drones, Corporate Lackeys & Resistance 2.0

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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John is joined by Pod Save America cohost, Message Box author, and former top Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer to discuss Donald Trump’s flood-the-zone transition strategy and the Democratic Party’s future. Pfeiffer argues that the Biden administration’s failure to address the mystery drone story is part of a larger abdication that has let Trump present himself as if he’s been president since Election Day; that Trump’s self-evident intent to turn his second term into a pay-for-play wet dream for plutocrats offers Democrats a chance to seize the mantle of reform and regain their populist mojo; and that Resistance 2.0 can only succeed to the extent it avoids focusing excessively on Trump. Pfeiffer also conducts a kind of autopsy on his own 2024 election post-mortem with the high command of Kamala Harris’s campaign. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.3	Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey
0:52.6	Joint featuring lively, in-depth,
0:55.3	and sometimes ever so slightly profane conversations with the people who roam the quarters of power
1:00.1	and influence in America, weaving the warp and wharf of our politics and culture. It's a week
1:06.5	before Christmas and all over Fox News. We see Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
1:11.9	And what bullshit he spews.
1:14.2	About UFOs in the sky, about pollsters he's suing,
1:18.3	CEOs bending the knee,
1:20.4	and the other appalling shit they're doing.
1:24.2	When wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait,
1:26.7	what's that, what's that sound I hear?
1:29.4	And you better watch out, you better not cry, you better not find out, I'm telling you why,
1:38.8	stay in the closest come in the town, say in the closest come in the Dan. Say the closest coming to Dan.
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