Have the Democrats Decided to Win?
Offline with Jon Favreau
Crooked Media
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Something happened in 2016 that led Democrats to campaign on unpopular issues. Researcher Simon Bazelon digs into extensive polling data—and on-the-ground-results from tight races—to explain where elites steered us off course, how we can neutralize Trump’s advantages, and why voters might not actually want radical change. Then, he and Jon discuss the pitfalls of an attention economy that gives clicks but NOT votes to viral, trendy policies.
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| 1:22.0 | One way to get people to talk about economic ideas is to not have unpopular positions on other |
| 1:27.2 | issues that voters |
| 1:27.8 | care a lot about. It's going to be harder for you. It's going to distract from your economic |
| 1:31.7 | message if you're getting hit from the right on issues like immigration or crime. I think you can |
| 1:36.7 | see this with something like Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. So for example, Trump took some issues |
| 1:42.5 | off the table for us by becoming more moderate on those issues. |
| 1:45.9 | Trump just said, look, I'm not going to cut Social Security. I'm not going to cut Medicare. |
| 1:49.9 | If you want reporters, if you want journalists, if you want voters to care more about economic issues, |
| 1:54.8 | a really good way to do that is to take that lesson from Trump on Social Security and Medicare |
| 1:58.2 | and to neutralize Republicans' advantage on these |
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