In Defense of Partisanship

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Partisanship is often portrayed as a societal ill—usually by those jerks in the other party. But as Julian Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, argues: partisanship can be beneficial. In fact, things become rather inefficient without it. Meanwhile, the Hamas-Israel hostage deal remains on the precipice of implementation, and Joe Biden issues a warning about oligarchs. He likely has one specific billionaire in mind, though there is significant political diversity even among the hundred-billionaire class. GIST Coupon Codes ... Harry's: harrys.com/gist for a $13 trial set for just $3 Prolon Life: prolonlife.com/gist for 15% off Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This Thursday, January 23rd, I will be conducting a panel discussion on free speech at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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0:50.1	It's Thursday, January 16th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.
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0:56.5	And the deal between Hamas and Israel that has been paused, although Secretary of State
1:02.0	Anthony Blinken in his final address interrupted by hecklers, said he is confident that it will
1:07.7	get done.
1:08.9	What has happened domestically in Israeli politics is that the far
1:13.1	right member of Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, Idemar Ben-Givir, has either threatened to quit or quit.
1:19.5	He will be quitting, the insider say, and with him goes his six and his party six seats.
1:25.1	Still, Netanyahu will have 62 seats out of 120 in the Knesset,
1:31.4	the Israeli parliament, so he will be able to continue on and approve the deal. It is not known
1:37.9	which Israelis will be released. 33 are said to be released. Reporting is that three will come in the first day,
1:45.8	four will come in the second day. But it is also not known, and this is critical, how many of the
1:51.4	33 will be alive. Now, the 33 are all in a category, humanitarian category. So they are
1:59.5	women, children, the infirm, not men, not fathers.
2:03.6	But it is odd to me, though, given the oddness of the entirety of the circumstances,
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