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🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Mr. Client and this is the Ezra Clancho. |
0:20.7 | In July, Eric Adams triumphed over a crowded field to win democratic nomination for mayor of |
0:26.5 | New York City. |
0:27.9 | He's heavily, heavily favored now to win the general election too. |
0:32.0 | And that might sound like a New York only story to you. |
0:35.2 | But Adams campaign became this strange bellweather at a moment when the left seemed as a descendant |
0:40.8 | in the Democratic Party. |
0:42.5 | When DeFund the police was still a buzzing slogan and Biden's victory was considered the |
0:48.6 | last gasp of Obamaism, the kind of thing only Obama's vice president could pull off. |
0:54.2 | Adams campaign read and was framed by him as a challenge to the progressive politics |
0:59.6 | of the moment. |
1:00.8 | Here was a black former cop who said police were the answer, not just a problem. |
1:05.5 | He warned that the Democrats had lost touch with the working class voters of all races |
1:09.6 | who feared disorder in their cities. |
1:12.4 | And then he won. |
1:13.4 | He won with a working class multiracial coalition, the other Democrats promised they'd be the |
1:19.8 | ones to put together. |
1:22.3 | And politicians have a really fast rise in stature when they go from local to national |
1:27.1 | story. |
1:28.1 | They often publish or republish book. |
1:30.9 | And Adams is no different here. |
1:32.9 | But the book that's coming out now in paperback is it's not a biography, it's not a policy |
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