How the Democrats Could Divide and Conquer
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 4 May 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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John Cassidy and Benjamin Wallace-Wells join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss whether the Democratic Party can create a strong anti-Trump agenda.
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| 1:12.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about |
| 1:16.8 | politics. It's Thursday, May 4th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:23.4 | Democrats and other progressives have been doing everything possible to make themselves |
| 1:27.4 | heard since the election of Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders, who has been holding town halls |
| 1:32.8 | across the country in recent months, many of them in red states. He spoke in Cleveland on |
| 1:38.0 | Monday about the future of the American left. The job of progressives is not just to oppose Trump's reactionary agenda. |
| 1:49.0 | But in addition to that, what we need to do is bring forth a progressive agenda that addresses the needs of the working families of this country, an agenda which has a very |
| 2:03.6 | different moral compass. John Cassidy and Benjamin Wallace Wells, |
| 2:09.0 | Welles, join me to discuss what a coherent agenda for the Democratic Party might look like. |
| 2:13.8 | Hey, John and Ben. Thank you both for being here. Hi, Dorothy. Morning, Dorothy. John, let's start with you. I want to ask you about the electoral strategy. The Democrats have been pursuing for years. They decided way back before the 2012 election not to try and win over white working class voters. And, well, it obviously didn't work out very well for them in 2016. |
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