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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Host Sarah Isgur and contractually obligated Jonah Goldberg are joined by Dispatch contributor Jesse Singal and Mike Pesca, host of The Gist podcast to discuss the Democratic Party's identity crisis. Also: Singal broke news on The Dispatch about the Trump administration's transgender policy. The Agenda:—The cajun rages on—Sarah is smarter than her son—We all know a David Hogg—The Dems should thank Trump for the 80/20 issues—The Trump administration and transgender health care for kids—2026 Senate map—Ross Douthat worries about the end of humanity The Dispatch Podcast is a production of ⁠⁠The Dispatch⁠⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and regular livestreams—⁠⁠click here.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm Sarah Isker. We've got Jonah Goldberg and, y'all, this is going to be a fun podcast.
0:19.7	We've got Mike Peska, host of the Gist
0:22.3	and author of The Gist List, and Jesse Single, new dispatch contributor, host of Lockton reported,
0:28.8	and writer of single-minded. And he tells me, y'all, he won a Little League trophy in 1995.
0:35.4	I mean, what's not to love about Jesse Singles. I want to start where
0:39.6	we left off from last week. We went through sort of what does MAGA stand for? What are the MAGA
0:45.5	policies? What's going on with Trump foreign policy? Things of this nature. I want to move over to the
0:50.6	Democrats now and focus or maybe use as a jumping off point or a metaphor,
0:55.8	the conversation going on between David Hogg, who is the vice chair of the Democratic National
1:00.9	Committee now, and James Carville, you know, famous, longtime Democratic operative dude.
1:09.1	So basically, David Hogg has taken the quite controversial position that he's
1:15.5	going to raise money as the vice chair of the DNC to run primaries against Democratic incumbents.
1:22.0	And as Hogg and Carville did this interview together. You know, Hogg basically says,
1:28.8	well, what do you want to do, James?
1:30.6	What do you want to do to fix the abysmal approval rating
1:32.9	of the Democratic Party?
1:34.2	And James Carville screams, win elections.
1:39.1	Since then, James Carville tweeted,
1:42.0	Just called David Hogg.
1:43.0	He reminded me of the story of, after the Battle of Shiloh,
1:46.5	Henry Halleck urged President Lincoln to fire Ulysses Grant. Lincoln said, I can't fire him.
1:51.9	This man fights. David Hogg fights. The DNC needs him. There's so much about that that I find
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