Episode 42: 2024 Election Debrief, Part I
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 662 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Moira and Adrian delve reluctantly into the horror, the horror -- aka the results of the 2024 presidential election. We didn't realize it when we recorded it, but this will be first installment in a series. This episode touches on split ticket voting, post-election anti-wokeness debates, the "tech bro" narrative.
In the episode, we also mention Kate Manne's Substack essay "Trump's Election is a Triumph of Rape Culture" -- and we point folks to the new IBWTR Patreon! Like and subscribe, as they say!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrian Dobb. And I'm Moywardanagan. And this is in Bed with the Right, doing an election debrief. So I don't know why I sounded so pretty just now. Yeah, I mean, I have been dreading this one, Adrian. |
| 0:17.6 | It's like it's a root canal. We won't be a bummer for the whole time. |
| 0:21.5 | You know, we're going to try and see what we can learn, both from the results themselves and |
| 0:27.6 | from sort of the conversation surrounding the election results. And then we're going to try and |
| 0:32.3 | look forward and try and get this all in perspective and see what it means for American gender politics going forward, which I think looks very different on this side. |
| 0:42.8 | We've held off. We thought about doing an immediate reaction that was just going to be as going, fuck. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, like me crying. I don't know. It would not have been great for our listeners. |
| 0:53.1 | Like me eating pudding very quietly. |
| 0:56.2 | You know, while I'm when I cries, that's my coping. |
| 0:59.2 | I'm not super-emosh, but I do kind of love me a pudding when I really need it. |
| 1:04.1 | But there is a reason other than we didn't want to, why we didn't do this right away. |
| 1:09.7 | Because I have, I personally have this B in my bonnet when it |
| 1:12.2 | comes to any election analysis, right, that like, it has to kind of include two things. There's |
| 1:17.3 | what happened in the election and then there's what the various actors, whether they're political |
| 1:21.3 | parties, the press, et cetera, et cetera, sort of like think or frame happened. And those three |
| 1:27.2 | things usually aren't totally unrelated, but they're |
| 1:29.5 | not the same thing, right? The question of which groups and which messages made a difference. |
| 1:35.3 | And the question who the incoming government thinks made a difference. Like, those are two separate |
| 1:39.8 | questions. And a lot of the early punditry, you couldn't tell whether this was a genuine reading of, |
| 1:46.7 | you know, let's be clear, a vote picture that is still emerging. There's still, I believe, |
| 1:51.1 | votes being counted in parts of the country as we record this. And how much of it was just |
| 1:56.2 | pundits kind of beating up on their favorite targets that they would have beaten up on no matter what the |
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