E316. Woke vs. Working Class: The Battle for America's Future - Patrick Ruffini
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Bridget sits down with Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. The book explores the transformative political landscape of recent American elections, challenging previous narratives about the Republican Party's demographics and highlighting a significant multi-racial shift in voter preferences, particularly noting how Donald Trump expanded Republican support among African American and Latino voters. Patrick and Bridget discuss what he got right about the 2024 election that everyone else missed, Gen Z's political realignment, suburban women's concerns, working-class voter migrations, the impact of COVID, identity politics agendas in schools, and gender identity debates. They cover the breakdown of traditional political paradigms, why 2020 was supposed to be a return to normal but was actually the opposite, why it felt okay to openly support Trump in this election, the yearning for strong leadership and stability, why Kamala wasn’t a good candidate, why it would have been a disaster for her to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and the key polling question that indicated the true direction America was leaning: “How are your neighbors are voting?”
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| 0:00.0 | You had the school board members conspiring against the parents who were raising questions about why are you pushing this equity agenda. |
| 0:09.0 | That's when I was like, oh, they're in trouble. |
| 0:12.0 | They said 2020 was the back to normal election, but it didn't feel like we got back to normal. |
| 0:17.0 | Things got more insane because we thought it was over, but it really wasn't over. |
| 0:23.0 | When they interviewed Gen Z for their reason for voting for Trump, what are their top answers? |
| 0:29.6 | The biggest swing was among Gen Z. The biggest swing was among the lot of else. |
| 0:33.4 | Not to mention a president who was clearly in decline, while everyone was telling us that he was fine. |
| 0:38.9 | It didn't feel like anyone was actually in control. |
| 0:42.0 | She had to take two days off campaign trail to prepare for a friendly interview by the mainstream media. |
| 0:51.3 | What's she going to do in a studio with three hours |
| 0:54.7 | for Joe Rogan? |
| 0:55.6 | With Harris, you really had no idea who she actually was. |
| 1:04.9 | All right, I'm with Patrick Rafini, everybody. |
| 1:07.2 | Welcome to Walkins, welcome. |
| 1:08.5 | Thank you for joining me. |
| 1:12.1 | Thanks so much for having me. I really wanted to talk to you about well the book you wrote that was quite |
| 1:16.0 | promontative of what happened in this election the shifts you saw kind of predicted why you |
| 1:23.2 | wrote your book which is party of the people inside inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition, |
| 1:27.8 | remaking the GOP. And that came out in 2023, correct? |
| 1:32.3 | That's right. |
| 1:33.2 | Okay. So you were very far ahead of the curve on this. And then I also want to just talk |
| 1:38.9 | to you about what, you know, trends you kind of predict or what you see moving forward and all of the, |
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