Ep 977: An Apple Made of Razors

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

Politics, Midterms, News, News Commentary, Election, Presidential, Indivisible, Government, Progressive, Debate, Liberal, Campaign, Democrat, Resistance

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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(And we talk about the Illinois Democratic Primaries! They were counting votes as we recorded.) Episode 977 examines the 2026 Illinois Democratic primary while dissecting David Axelrod's fantasy that Democrats should rerun the Obama 2008 campaign in 2028, as if the berserk Republican backlash to Obama never happened. Driftglass and Blue Gal discuss how legacy media pundits use lazy abstractions about "the people" and "the voters" while pretending the Republican party didn't become...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on Earthreets Radio or at our website, proleftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:10.0	There's a PayPal button at our website, or you can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.4	This is the podcast for March 17th, 2026.
0:22.7	It's not safe for work.
0:24.7	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where it's primary election day here,
0:28.7	and we're recording this as the votes are being counted so things could get a little weird.
0:33.0	It's the professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal.
0:41.9	Music professional left with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. Hey, Drift Class.
0:42.9	Happy St. Patrick's Day.
0:44.6	Well, I thank you, darling.
0:45.6	Happy St. Patrick.
0:46.3	I hope dinner was acceptable.
0:47.7	Yo, everybody.
0:48.7	Dinner was corn, beef, and cabbage,
0:50.9	potatoes and carrots.
0:52.9	The food of Drift Class is people. My people. And actually, if you check the 23 and carrots, the food of Drift Glass's people.
0:55.0	My people.
0:55.5	And actually, if you check the 23 and me, the food of my people as well, although my grandmother,
1:02.1	a Campbell, a Scottish Campbell, is spinning in her grave at the thought.
1:07.2	Deal with it, Granny.
1:08.3	Deal with it.
1:08.8	Well, I do have kind of an shocking reaction or shocked reaction to a social
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