Future of the Dems, Misogyny, Depolarization, Fearing Trump

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode features our answers to a bunch of great listener mail, facebook messages, and website comments we've gotten lately. We start off with Mike ansering a listener who thinks the Democratic Party should move left (Mike disagrees). Jay then responds to someone who suggests he might benefit from spending more time considering feminist perspectives. Another listener wonders if there's anything we can do to make our country less polarized. (In his response, Jay impressively brings in Epictetus, Mike's favorite Stoic philosopher.) Then it's a discussion of whether we're both being too easy on Donald Trump, and finally, a debate on federal funding of overseas abortion counseling.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.
0:17.2	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:23.5	My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.
0:30.0	So welcome, everyone, to this special listener mail edition of Ask the Politics, guys.
0:35.1	We've got all kinds of mail, and let's just get right into it.
0:39.2	If that's okay, Jay?
0:40.6	Yeah, let's go.
0:41.5	Okay, well, first we have Gustavo, who's become one of our growing number of monthly sustaining supporters through Patreon.
0:49.2	Gustavo writes, I've started looking forward each week to hear from both of you on your podcast.
0:54.8	I'm a med student at Stanford, but originally from San Diego.
0:58.2	If you wouldn't mind, and if you haven't already, I would like to hear your thoughts on the status of the National Democratic Party
1:04.5	and what they should do to turn around their weak position at every level of government.
1:09.6	Here's my take.
1:10.8	In response to the populist overthrow by the
1:13.1	Republican base, the Democrats should fight populist anger with populist anger. People, especially
1:18.9	Rust Belt voters, are tired of neoliberal policies that enable capitalists to move overseas
1:24.6	while forgetting the working class. Keith Ellison, Sanders, and other populace should be placed front and center to court these voters.
1:32.0	Thank you for your awesome show.
1:34.6	Thank you, Gustavo.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.8	And Gustavo, who is a med student, Stanford is plainly much smarter than both of us put together.
1:43.7	Pretty good school, Stanford.
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