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Impolitic with John Heilemann

Democrats & Dodgers Doubleheader with Jonathan Lemire

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

John welcomes Morning Joe co-host and Atlantic staff writer Jonathan Lemire to discuss the resounding triumphs this week of two very different Blue Teams: the Democratic Party and the LA Dodgers. Lemire assesses the key factors driving the Democratic drubbing of Donald Trump’s Republican Party in Tuesday's off-year elections; what comes next for the day’s big winners, from Zohran Mamdani in New York City to Gavin Newsom in California; and the reaction to the rout by Trump and the GOP. Then, once John finishes pimping the Dodgers second straight World Series win, Lemire lays out the argument in his recent Atlantic piece, “Don’t Blow This, Baseball,” as to why the grand old game is suddenly resurgent—and how a looming labor-management tussle could well lead to a calamitous work stoppage in 2027. 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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0:00.0

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Learn how at fueling our future.us. Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and

0:40.8

Odyssey joint featuring lively in-depth conversations with the people who cruise the

0:44.8

quarters of power in America, sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics, our culture,

0:50.8

and in some cases, sports.

0:54.0

Even before Tuesday night, it had already been, for some of us, a big week for Team Blue,

1:01.0

by which of course I mean my Los Angeles Dodgers, which pulled off an extraordinary

1:05.3

comeback last weekend in Toronto, winning two of the most exciting, dramatic, and simply bonkers postseason

1:12.4

baseball games anyone has ever seen, including arguably the greatest World Series game seven in history,

1:18.5

on their way to winning arguably the greatest World Series full stop in history, a series in which

1:24.6

the Dodgers were outplayed by the Blue Jays in almost every dimension of the game.

1:29.3

Offense and defense, starting pitching, relief pitching, hitting for power and for average,

1:33.9

plate discipline, and on and on, except for one thing, which is base running.

1:39.7

And in the end, that one seemingly small failing, plus the ineffable qualities of a team filled with veterans, filled with stars, filled with superstars, a team that knows how to win even when they don't have their A game, even when they are being outplayed, and in particular, knows how to keep it shit together on the biggest stage and in the most intense and highly pressured circumstances

2:00.9

in professional sports, qualities that it should be said are what make champions

2:06.0

champions. That was enough for the Dodgers to become world champions for the second

2:11.6

consecutive season. And in the process, adding another metric ton of fuel to the rocket

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