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Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where, as promised,

we're going to tell you exactly how the legacy media killed,

one of the oldest maxims in American politics.

It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue

Gal.

Hello out there in podcast land. Hello. We're betting that some or most or all of you are familiar

with this piece of conventional political wisdom.

Now, this quote is from Lawrence O'Donnell, but the advice goes back to at least Richard Nixon.

Quote, successful presidential campaigns follow a two-part strategy.

For Republicans, Richard Nixon described it as running to the right in the primaries

and running back to the center in the general election. For Democrats, the idea is to go to the

left in the primaries, then back to the center, unquote. Well, today we're going to talk about why that isn't true anymore and who killed it.

And spoiler alert, it was the legacy media.

What did the deed?

Yes, they did.

And just as a side note, because we do the homework, I did find one other mention of this by Wolf Blitzer in 2012 in the

situation room. My go-to for conventional wisdom is Wolf Blitzer. Yeah. Well, in 2012, you know,

he was a little more famous. But it was that maxim about running to the left and running to the

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