Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves
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4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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In Ep. 222, "The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves," we detail how our media allows the same party flacks who got the Dems into this mess, control over the narrative of how to get them out. With guest UC-Berkeley professor Jake Grumbach.
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| 0:47.3 | Democrats need to face why Trump won, states the Ezra Klein show. |
| 0:52.3 | Democratic strategist issues hard truth to party members after losing election. |
| 0:59.4 | CNN tells viewers, |
| 1:01.2 | this is why Kamala Harris really lost, writes Eric Levitts for Vox. |
| 1:08.1 | Since the 2024 presidential election, elite Democrats and the pundits in their orbits |
| 1:12.4 | have taken to newspapers, podcasts, and cable channels an attempt to explain why Kamala Harris |
| 1:17.1 | lost and Donald Trump won. Chief among the explanations, Democrats became controlled and |
| 1:22.1 | overtaken by the wokes, becoming overly fussy with pronouns and political correctness. |
| 1:28.1 | They became too soft on immigration and crime, while the electorate drifted further to the right, |
| 1:32.8 | and to win the future, Democrats have to, alas, with a putative heavy heart, go right with them. |
| 1:38.8 | Instead of contending with how the Democratic Party has abandoned a working class |
| 1:43.0 | composed of all races and gender identities, |
| 1:46.2 | chased big money and been overtaken by venal PR, flax, and lawyers, |
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